Clubman to Get Matching C-Pillar Option
After a year of hearing customers ask for it, MINI is finally allowing for matching C-pillars on the Clubman. However it’s with one big caveat – you can only get matching C-pillars if you order Pure Silver or Midnight Black.
On the Midnight Black R55 the black C-pillars are just that, black. That means that they won’t technically match the metallic Midnight Black of the body and will be based on the old Jet Black non-metallic last offered in 2005. However on the Pure Silver Clubman you will get the same Pure Silver on the C-pillars making it the only truly mono-chromatic Clubman offered.
These new combinations can be had on all variants of the R55 Clubman including the Cooper, Cooper S and John Cooper Works models. The website will be updated shortly and the dealer ordering guides have these new rules as well.
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website is not updated yet…
It is a catch 22 deal.
Thats why Gabe said the website would be updated shortly with this information Hardingsan 😉
Think this is a ok move should make a few people happy to have the option.
Minspeed offers painted C panels in any colour you want…
@<a href="#comment-250869" rel="nofollow">Pete</a>: <a href="http://www.minspeed.net/CCP.htm" rel="nofollow">Here’s a link</a> to the painted C-pillars that Pete mentioned.
This is awesome!……what’s a C pillar?
Now if only they’d listen to customers and redesign the awful craptastic dash and center stack…
hmmm – based on the picture that gabe linked I think the c-pillar should be black when the rear corners are body color.
So the black on black won’t match up when seen close up? That defeats the purpose of having a monochromatic option, doesn’t it?
Greg – What’s a “c” pillar?
Well, the front windscreen has two A pillars, the B pillar is in the centre between door and rear quarter window, and the C pillar is usually at the rear.
Now that the Crossover is on the production schedule you can understand why MINI did not put more development into a left hand side clubdoor.
But a false pillar for cosmetic reasons?
this sounds like the laziest packaging option from MINI ever.
but in reality the Clubman looks really bad with body colored c-pillars. that back area slims down a lot visually with contrasting ones.
I’m not crazy about the silver C pillars anyway let alone the top. If they got the black-matching situation straightened out, then a car wearing such an outfit would look plain mad! It’s the look I was going for on the Clubby S I’ve got on order (BRG body – black pillars – BRG roof).