Two Of Our Favorite MINI Colors Are Dead for 2021
It’s always a sad day when we see a great MINI colors cease production. Today we’re mourning the loss of two of our favorites (and one that was only around for one model year).
After just a year MINI is bidding farewell to Emerald Green on all models. It’s being phased out entirely and will likely end up being one of the shortest lived colors ever offered. Which is a tragedy given how incredible it looks in person and on a MINI. It’s likely MINI decided to end Emerald Green due to the introduction of Sage Green on the Countryman (which means we may see that color filter into other products).
After a six year run MINI is also eliminating Melting Silver as a body-color option on all MINIs. Introduced at the lunch of the current Clubman, Melting Silver offered a buyers something different than the standard silver or grey with warmer tones. It is worth mentioning that MINI will continue to offer Melting Silver Roof and Mirror caps on the MINI Clubman and MINI Countryman.
Agreed, Caribbean Blue is awesome. I would have loved a JCW Clubman in that color.
MINI seriously needs to get some color back into the range. I’m not against a reasonable price premium for special order colors either. Let the white, silver, dark gray, black, red and brg be standard colors. Then give us a selection of actually interesting colors, for say $1000 more. Maybe also have an option for a different roof color in that program. Make them widely available to order, not restricted by model.
I’ll give VW a lot of credit for the Specktrum Color program. It may have been $3000, but they had ~40 colors available.
I’m really disappointed by MINI’s color palate of late. Nearly everything is grayscale or dark.
If you want a bright, happy color that pops, your only choices are:
– red (boring)
– orange (eh)
– “caribbean aqua” (amazing)
But sadly, they’re not available on all models. Glad I got my electric blue 2-door before they decided MINIs should blend in with everything else dark or grayscale on the road.
It could be worse, I suppose … look at the Miata. They offer a decent red, a meh blue on the upper trim level, and everything else is drab greyscale dealer filler that belongs on a rental SUV. Color also plays into the supposedly “simplified tier pricing” that has been around for a few years now, and has been a factor in my slowness in replacing my ’06 S Convertible (Purple Haze!) It’s irritating to me that after bumping up $3K to avoid a rental car color with the “Signature Package” I’d have to spring another $2K to brighten up the rental car coal mine black interior even a bit. I loved the fact that I was able to build my Mini exactly the way I wanted it … I don’t want a bunch of the “added features” that justify the tiers … who needs dual zone climate control or leather seats in a convertible? Put that together with the ghastly quasi-digital display that looks like either a child’s video game or a low-end tablet device and it’s hard to get enthused about a purchase that figures to push close to $40K, much as I love the way the Mini handles and much as I recognize my current one is getting on …