One of the more interesting interior improvements to the 2005 MINI (at least to current owners of the car) has to be the new “utility box” storage are under the toggle switches. Interesting because it looks to be easily retrofitted. In fact I surmised as much upon my most recent inspection of a MINI Convertible. Well now we officially know it is and it would appear that Josh Wardell is the first to do so.

Here's all the do-it-yourself info:

Part numbers
(1) Utility Box 51-16-7-121-738 $13.25
(1) Rubber Insert 51-16-7-125-693 $7.56
Tools:
Torx20, Torx40, Phillips drivers/bits
Time:
15-20 mins

You can see the entire set of install instruction at Josh's site.