And so, after its seven-year life cycle, a fourth-generation MINI to replace the F56 arrived in 2020, right on target... Err, not quite.
That would have been the plan back when the F56 was unveiled in 2013, but the world of motor cars has changed an awful lot since then. We’re in the midst of an electrification revolution; like it or lump it, the future automobile will have an electric motor and not an internal combustion engine.
To buy some time to see how things develop, MINI announced a couple of years ago that the current third-generation models will continue until at least 2023. That’s why there was another facelift announced at the start of this year. We can expect more third-generation models to come with fully-electric versions, as well as various hybrids and traditional internal combustion engines, but a radical change is brewing…
DOWNSIZING
MINI first hinted that
