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MINI Roadster Makes Energetic Debut in Detroit

There’s a new and impressive member to the ever-growing MINI family of vehicle. It’s the brand new MINI Roadster that made a funky and youthful motor show debut yesterday in the city of motown music, Detroit.
This two-seater roadster has a manually operated top to keep weight down and will hit the US market in three flavors. The 2012 MINI Cooper Roader base model will set you back $25,050, for which you get the base 1.6-liter with 121 horsepower. Next up is the Cooper S Roadster, which starts at $28,050 and offers a more respectable 184 hp from a turbocharged version of the same engine.

The US market doesn’t enjoy any sort of MINI diesel variant, but you can have the range-toppig JCW Roadster with 206 horsepower, and a more track-focused setup, cool graphics and body kit and the usual JCW rims. This starts at $35,200, and will be available in the spring, together with the other versions.
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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