First MINI Coupé Being Built Today
We’ve received word from an inside source that the very first pre-production R58 MINI Coupé is being built at MINI Plant Oxford today. Exciting news indeed as that means we’re likely just days away from seeing our first glances of the production version of the car. We’ve previously reported that the production car won’t vary much from the concept we’ve already seen, but there will likely be small differences worth noting.
<p>woot!</p>
<p>Awesome! It’ll be great to see this lighter R56 variant. The regular S version should be plenty quick!</p>
<p>Fun! Hope video is leaked or released 🙂 Remaining Mini Sprints are smiling today.</p>
<p>OMFG I”M FREAKING OUT WITH HAPPINESS!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I would love to see MINI capture the build process and sneak a video of it out. Would be a cool think when they show this at the first show to have in the background and would likely give them some stock footage for feeding their rabid fans. I am actually dying to see what will be replacing our 06 R53.</p>
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<p>Less than a year and it will be mine. So happy right now. I need to go for a ride in the R53 so it does not get jealous.</p>
<p>Hope the MF spies can sneak a photo as well as engine/weight specs.</p>
<p>Activate: Operation Piggybank :)</p>
<p>I still think the top looks like a toupee…….</p>
<p>And I still wish for/fear for the lack of reasonable headroom in the coupé. I’m driving an R57 MC loaner and it’s got more headroom than my R56 MCS.</p>