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Galleries • 5 June 2014

Meet Mini’s 2015 Cooper 5 door

By Staff Reporter

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Doesn’t look too bad, does it?

This is actually Mini’s first five door Cooper and is also a little bit longer than the two door variant. While that does mean that Mini’s been able to increase the available leg-room, elbow room, head room and every other room you can think of, it does nothing to address the most common complaint about every new Mini model to date: they’re too big.

BMW insists however that the Mini Cooper 5 door won’t lose the go-karty feel of its smaller brethren. That, it says, is thanks to a “model-specific set-up of suspension technology”, comprising of a whole load of acronyms we really don’t understand.

On the driver-facing tech front, the company has decided to stick with the central, circular display. The four-line TFT display which comes as standard (with an optional colour display up to 8.8 inches in size also available), allows you to operate navigation, entertainment, telephone and vehicle functions using MINI Controller.

Given Mini’s position as premium brand, it should also hardly be surprising that there are a whole heap of driver aids, including Head-Up-Display, Parking Assistant, rear view camera and Driving Assistant including camera-based active cruise control, collision and pedestrian warning with initial brake function, high beam assistant and road sign detection.

We’re not entirely sure how we feel about it, although we will say that we’re just waiting for the day that Mini stops building what appear to be shrunken down Range Rovers and actually just builds a Range Rover competitor.

The New Mini 5 Door

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