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Minis are accepted for getting bunched and speedy, and in the not-so-distant future, Mini will add a crossover auto to its lineup.

“The Mini Paceman abstraction apparent at the 2011 Detroit auto appearance is headed for production, according to Mini USA V-P Jim McDowell,” letters Car and Driver. “The crossover coupe—either a Mini Cooper auto on stilts or a two-door Countryman, depending on your point of view—will accompany the company’s body-style calculation to seven, as it joins the aboriginal hatch, the four-seat convertible, the best Clubman, the Countryman crossover, and the accessible two-seat auto and roadster.”

So far, the there’s alone a little advice accessible on the Paceman. “The assembly archetypal will cover an accessible all-wheel-drive arrangement and the 1.6-liter turbocharged ability bulb currently begin in Mini’s John Cooper Works editions,” Kicking Tires says.

The New York Times brand the way the Paceman looks, but wonders if the new architecture will authority accurate to the acceptable Mini. “Sure, this crouched, able-bodied Mini looks great,” they write. “But as with the Countryman and the Clubman afore it, how far can you devious from the aboriginal Mini architecture afore it’s no best a Mini?”

If you’re absorbed in the Mini Paceman, you’ll acquire to delay a while. It won’t be for auction until 2013.

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