Photo: MINI
For no good reason other than to show off, MINI has actually chopped the back of a Paceman and made it into what has to be their first pickup truck since BMW took over. Production? We’re pretty sure it’s never going to happen, but the way MINI is going, you never know.
In the spirit of making things look cool, the British have not only chopped a little bit of the bodywork off, but have added stuff as well. There’s a roof rack that holds four auxiliary offroad lights and the spare wheel and tire, some protection here and there and even a snorkel for the engine to breathe through while you’re crossing a river. Unfortunately, since this is a 1.6-liter engine, this has to be the most anemic snorkel we’ve ever seen. It looks like a black straw!
Starting with the Cooper S Paceman with All4 all-wheel drive, engineers from Munich have also reworked the suspension. They’ve also had to modify the passenger compartment to create the cargo area.
Die-hard fans of the Mini brand that’s not spelled with capital letters will tell us that this is not the first Brit pickup. Between 1961 and 1982, they built a 3.4 meter utility truck based on the Mini Van. It weighed only 1,500 lb (680 kg). Of course, those were different times, so passenger seatbelts weren’t even standard, but they managed to sell 58,000 in about two decades of production.
Starting with the Cooper S Paceman with All4 all-wheel drive, engineers from Munich have also reworked the suspension. They’ve also had to modify the passenger compartment to create the cargo area.
Die-hard fans of the Mini brand that’s not spelled with capital letters will tell us that this is not the first Brit pickup. Between 1961 and 1982, they built a 3.4 meter utility truck based on the Mini Van. It weighed only 1,500 lb (680 kg). Of course, those were different times, so passenger seatbelts weren’t even standard, but they managed to sell 58,000 in about two decades of production.
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