2015 Mini Cooper S Hardtop 4-Door Review by Carey Russ - The Auto Channel (blog)
The newest Mini Cooper S 4-Door combines fun, frugality, and functionality with a useful bit more room inside and the flexibility and accessibility of four doors and a hatch. With two more doors, a nearly three-inch stretch in wheelbase, and over six inches more in length and looking even longer, is the 2015 Mini 4-Door still mini. It's bigger than any previous Hardtop model, but those were in turn much larger than the original Austin / Morris Mini made from 1959 through 2000. That car was one of the most influential automobiles in history, being the first to successfully... And was most definitely mini, even compared to other British and European cars of its day. Minis disappeared from US sales in the late 1960s, and returned in 2002 after ownership of the marque had passed to BMW. The two-door Hardtop was the original model, and was very much in the mold of the original. A one-product lineup is not the way to success, and the first expansion was a convertible in 2005. A second generation Hardtop appeared in 2007 with structural and engine changes, and the lineup expanded further with the debut of the longer,... Source: www.theautochannel.com
