WOWW !! 2023 Mini Cooper Hardtop-interior & exterior
Now well into its third generation, Mini’s retro-styled Hardtop has been around since BMW rebooted the brand 20 years ago. Stylists and engineers are working on the fourth-generation model, and the company revealed the cheeky hatchback is in line to receive its most significant makeover to date.
Mini boss Bernd Körber told Autocar that the project’s motto was “don’t screw with an icon,“ which means the fourth-generation Hardtop will keep the heritage-inspired design that has characterized it for the past two decades. And yet, it will be drastically different than the model that’s currently in showrooms. It will be smaller, though it likely won’t be as tiny as the original Mini from 1959, and it will showcase a purer approach to design. The idea of a smaller, lighter Mini has us wondering if the new Hardtop could take some inspiration from the 2011 Rocketman concept.
“What you’ll see in 2023 is that we’ve clearly modernized it by taking a big step -