LAST AUTO NEWS – REVISED MINIS REVEALED
Last Auto account – Revised MINIs appear Facelifted MINI ambit gets new attending and new 99g/km agent engines.
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It’s time for a MINI facelift. To accumulate its exceptional baby car ambit on agreement with the new Audi A1 and the Fiat 500, the MINI Clubman, Convertible and bear accept all been accustomed a balmy refresh.
Headline account is the accession of a new 1.6-litre agent engine, which replaces the old PSA-sourced unit. The engine is finer the aforementioned as that acclimated in the 116d, and appearance BMW’s latest accepted abuse bang and capricious vane turbo.
There are two adaptation of the aforementioned unit: In the Cooper D hatch, it produces 110bhp and 270Nm, and in the One D hatch, 89bhp and 215Nm. Both engines afford 74.3mpg and 99g/km of carbon dioxide, acknowledgment to stop start, on-demand use of the alternator and adorning brakes.
The engines will be adapted in the Clubman and, for the aboriginal time, the Convertible. BMW claims that the latter’s 70mpg and 105g/km accomplish it the a lot of able abounding convertible in the UK.
Despite the ability gains, achievement charcoal absorbing – the Cooper D accelerates from 0-62 mph in 9.7 abnormal and goes on to a top acceleration of 123mph, while the One D sprints from 0-62mph in 11.4 abnormal and hits 115 mph collapsed out.
To acclaim the abstruse changes, there are new bumpers, lights and auto on the outside, and revisions to the centre animate on the central to accomplish it easier to use.
All cars except the MINI Aboriginal get DAB agenda radios as standard, and buyers can now opt for MINI’s bigger Connected system. It lets iPhone owners beck web radio, which allows you to accept to any radio base that has a web address. The arrangement can aswell accept RSS account feeds and use the on-dash awning to affectation their latest letters on Facebook and Twitter.
The revised MINI ambit goes on auction on 18th September with prices accepted to be abutting to the accepted model, to yield the action to the Audi A1which arrives in the UK at a agnate time.
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