MINI Cooper - convertible

01 Nov, 2011 | category - Vehicles | 93 photos | 4751 visits

The company continues to expand the MINI line of popular compacts. At this time the addition was expected. Introduced in the summer MINI Coupe could not remain without an open version. It appeared under the name of the Roadster and corresponds to the classical laws of the genre: the soft top is composed by hand for the sake of weight reduction, and the salon is designed exclusively for two. The machine has a 3728 mm long, 1638 mm wide and 1390 mm in height, which makes the roadster to 3 mm shorter, 47 mm wider and 25 mm lower than the MINI Cabriolet. Roadster share the range of modifications to the closed version of: Cooper, Cooper S, Cooper SD, and the most powerful JCW. Gasoline engine for the new one in fact - a 1.6-liter. In the atmospheric model version of the MINI Cooper Coupe it produces 122 hp, a plate left Cooper S supercharged 184 already are grazed "horse", and John Cooper Works offers its 211 forces. In this case acceleration to 100 km / h takes about 6.5 seconds, and the maximum possible speed exceeds 230 km / h. An alternative to heavy fuel oil - 2.0 liter engine and a power of 143 hp With the engines will be aggregated manual or automatic transmissions with six steps.