North American Debut in Vancouver, Canada

The MINI Cooper Convertible is set to make it’s North American Debut at the Pacific International Auto Show in Vancouver, Canada (March 26 - April 4), the Convertible will then make it’s US debut at the New York International Auto Show this April.

Also today, following many “technical” problems, we finally have video online of the MINI Convertible roof in action.

www.mini2.com/video/convertible_mini2.wmv Approx. 1.2 mb.

The video starts from just a couple of seconds into opening, you see the roof come up and over into the “sunroof” fully open position, then the sunroof closes and all windows
close, this is activated with a single button.

You can then see it slide back into the “sunroof” position, then from that the next step opens down the windows, and then the roof opens.

You can see how the rear glass folds down and how the unit works. The rear quarter glass can also be opened and closed (as a pair) via a second switch regardless of the position of the roof.