MINI Rocketman fails to launch
BMW pulls the pin on “far too expensive” MINI RocketmanIt seems the design study that was the MINI Rocketman will forever stay just that. BMW has told Car Magazine the 2011 Geneva Motor Show debutant was prohibitively expensive for a vehicle of such diminutive proportions, and that is abridged Cooper underpinnings would unlikely meet stability requirements, nor EuroNCAP safety standards.
Measuring 3419mm long, the pint-sized MINI would have fit beneath the Cooper hatch in MINI’s line-up. Originally slated for release in 2016, Rocketman could have offered urban hipsters a condensed Cooper more closely resembling the dimensions of Sir Alec Issigonis’ original BMC model, or indeed Mercedes-Benz’s smart for-two.
In the interim, Australian aficionados of the MINI brand will soon experience the Coupe and Roadster models which will join the Cooper line-up from February this year.
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