Has anyone seen the new 2016 F54? It is quite stylish and has some cool new features:

new 8 speed automatic
new power memory seats
new rear power split doors
new electronic parking brake
new alarm indicator on the exterior antenna
new illuminated door panel bezels
new mini projector puddle light on driver's side
new wiper blade design
new side air intakes
new wheels, paint, interiors, trims

 

That is a nice looking rig!!

 

I am curious about the pricing and what the order guide has to offer - any MINI Yours options?

 

The car just debuted online this week. There probably won't be an ordering guide for a few months until it debuts in person.

There will probably be new mini yours interiors, trims, and paints. It is clear that the indigo diamond pattern is a new mini yours interior (which is amazing!)

 

I gotta admit that looks pretty sweet. My wife's gonna want one of those I'm predicting. It's a totally different car than I drive, but way cooler than her 2010 Honda Element.

 

I'm hoping to convince my wife to dump her Mazda 3 for one of those when her term is up. I would love to have one of those in my garage!

 

Alarm indicator on the antenna may also prevent helicopters front landing on it too.

 

I really like it. Although I'm sure the price tag when you get it properly equipped could easily push $40K. Our MCS F56, fairly well equipped was near $32K and a similarly equipped JCW was over $40K.

Still, I'd definitely consider one of these for the bit of extra room while maintaining the MINI look.

I'm seeing a bit of the Land Rover Evoque in the F54 (not a bad thing IMO).

Should be interesting to see what materializes.

 

Some interesting small figures for comparison. These are overall length in inches and width including mirrors.

F54 : 168.3 79.6
R60 : 161.8 78.6

The new Clubman is definitely a bigger car. However, drove one of the new 2015 Volvo V60's which is within a couple of inches of the F54, and it was rather nice size. We will probably be picking up a new crowd of MINI owners with this one.

 

At 168.3" x 79.6" it is still shorter than a Prius (176.4" x 68.7") and in the grand scheme of things, this is still a relatively small car.

 

I didn't like when BMW switched to electronic handbrakes and now they are taking over our minis as well...


On another note, is the top car red or brown?

 

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Are they offering both the 3 cylinder and 4 cylinder engines in those or just sticking with the 4 because of the increased size?

 

They have to, probably. The placement of the iDrive on the F56/55 is shockingly bad! I'm amazed they let it finalize as is. I'm glad they're addressing this on the F54. I am ambivalent about electronic parking brakes, but they are definitely space-saving.

 

Excited to see this in person and check of the seats and the interior trim. Power seats are the big change to the interior convenience / comfort.

 

A friend of mine saw one on the NJ Turnpike yesterday.

 

The Mule F54. Nice find.

 

For now, the same engines being offered in the F56/55 line up.

Also, its Burgandy (Forgot the full color name) and there's another new color.

 

It's still not large, smaller cargo capacity than a Golf or Focus, so it's still Mini-ish.

 

*sigh*


Edit: Thank you Jaque

 

to the OP

you claim there is a new wiper blade design? explain, I see everything is normal

 

...heard today somemore stuff about it. The electric seats apparently the standard seats in both the F54 and F60. If you want manual seats from now on its either and F56 or F55 (didn't hear anything about the F57). And yes, the rear doors (Not the barn doors) are full size doors, not simply the same rear ones off the F55. AWD on the 2018 Model, after the new F60.

 

Incidentally Jaque, if the goal with manual seats is to have less weight, you'd be surprised how little weight seat motors add to modern seats. I got a complete 1 Series M Coupe interior for our shop 135i, complete with manual seats, partly for the weight reduction. I was able to save weight: 1 pound per seat.

 

How much reduction did you achieve, and which parts make a weight difference?

 

That was the surprise. I weighed the auotmatic, multi-adjustable seats that came out of the car and the manual 1M Couple seats that went into the car. The manual seats were 1 pound lighter. 1 pound apiece! All that work for two stinkin' pounds. Actually the seats were much more comfortable, but still.

 

I'm not too concerned with the weight. But the F60 Countryman will be RAV4 sized from what I heard. But from the video of it doing some testing, it looked like it was quite a bit more agile than any RAV4, CRV (HRV) or CX5.