UK One & Cooper Convertible Launch Date Confirmed.

MINI UK have confirmed to MINI2 that the MINI Convertible will go on sale in the UK Saturday 26th June 2004. We believe the UK will be the first, or among the first markets to see the new soft top MINI go on sale. MINI USA are still officially quoting “summer”, we expect late August, early September, but could be wrong!

MINI, in any colour you want, as long as it’s blue…

Or at least it’s beginning to feel that way from the rumourscoming into the MINI2 head quarters of late! We have receivedmore news on future colours. We’ve shown “Cool Blue”,which will be exclusive to the Convertible, and we’ve shown you “Hot Orange” metallic, however we haven’tyet seen or been able to show the other soft top exclusive
colour yet, which is “Cool Blue” metallic, which we believe is the colour formerly referred to as “Shark Blue”, rumours of which started on this site a very longtime ago! This will be a sort of “purplish blue”from what we understand.

There will be a new “Hyper Blue” colour for theMINI Cooper S only, in both hard and soft top form, insidershave told us this will be basically the same as the BMW Motorbike
colour “Pacific Blue”. We can best describe this metallic colour as a very blue shade of blue! It’s lighter than Indi Blue, but much darker than Electric Blue. Apparently
the noose still waits for Indi Blue, although reports are that the days when this colour will be no more have been put back… we’ll see.

We’ve also heard whispers of a new shade of metallic black being either planned, or already scheduled for release. We have no confirmaton of this, but it seems that Cosmos Black hasn’t been a fantastic hit, so maybe the folks at MINI do have something new up their sleeved?! Again, only time will tell!

More convertible news.

Well, it seems MINI2 got it wrong. Contrary to reports on bridger.us/mini, we believed that the Convertible would not have a “sunroof” option that allowed only part of
the roof to slide back for “semi-open top” driving. The latest shots in Auto Express show that’s not the case, and this WILL indeed be a feature of the Convertible MINIs,
however our sources still say this seems more a feature for a features sake, and wont be much use in real world driving above anything but very slow cruising speeds. We’ll soon see.

We revealed some time ago on MINI2 that the Convertible will have a choice of hood colours. This appears to be true, however in countries where the MINI One is sold, this Model will be limited to a black roof only, no colour choices.