Mini Cooper D shows better fuel economy than the Honda Insight

Speaking of environmental movement, the Mini Cooper will not be the first car to be associated with this. But with its frugal four cylinder engines and the new Mini E battery-operated version, the Cooper’s green credentials are quite impressive.

At present, Mini is polishing the inexpensive, high miler Cooper that sells in Europe to be the Mini One; the new Mini One D has a special 90hp (67kW) version of a BMW Group oil-burner that turns in the equivalent of 6mg fuel economy. It also includes stop-start functionality to save gas in traffic and city driving at the same time it has regenerative braking that supplies juice for accessory power.
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Joe_Limon - 7/9/2009 10:38:33 AM

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A 90hp mini? No thank you. But if you are one of those slow painful drivers that drive to optimize fuel economy I guess you don't need any more then 30hp anyway.

0to60 - 7/9/2009 12:59:23 PM

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What about the price? Will that be near the insights? I doubt it.

Agent00R - 7/9/2009 1:06:03 PM

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Something tells me it would not ring in at approx $20k neither.