There's one thing I've learnt from very early on. Don't trust what is printed in car mags, only spy photos, and never take those as a true example of the future cars, just an interesting glimpse of what might be. Seriously, the mags print (and have printed) a load of nonsense and guesswork about the new MINIs since before they were released, in partcular with regards new models
We're lucky that we've always had good sources here, off the record and on the record, and try to report and type in here only what we are very confident will come to pass (eg the latest news on the Diesel engines). Magazines however print a lot of stuff, mostly to sell magazines and fill column inches to go with some new photoshop images or spy photos they've paid an agency good money for.