While the article is nothing more than a preview of a preview really it does have a full page full of specs that may be news to some. Here's an excerpt:

It's hardly a surprise that Mini has a new droptop version of the Mini Cooper, as we started seeing spy pictures, snapped during cold-weather testing in Scandinavia, more than a year ago. And we knew that Mini was determined not to wait as long as Volkswagen and Chrysler, which belatedly brought out convertible versions of their own boutique small cars, the New Beetle and PT Cruiser, respectively. The Mini brand has been a great success for BMW both in Europe and the United States, and Mini needs to keep the momentum going.

You can check out the cabrio's full specs from the article here. By the way you'll have to fire up the old metric conversion program if you want to see numbers in pounds and inches.

The full article (along with other US magazine previews) should hit newsstands in early June.