CAR Magazine reports:
Our friends over at Autoblog have snared a handful of European patent pictures of next year's new Mini twins – the Coupé and Roadster. The 2011 debutants are revealed in their likely showroom spec in these new sketches that lodge the trademarks required to stem Chinese rip-offs.
The 2011 Mini Coupé and Roadster were trailed in the 2009 concept cars shown at the Frankfurt motor show and, as predicted, the production cars are little different.
So what's new on the production Mini sports cars?
Not much. These four leaked images shown that the front fascia, bumpers and aero addenda are only mildly changed from their concept brethren. It's all about style: the Mini's already pointless rear seats will be junked on both the coupé and rag-top roadster. These sportier Minis are Germany's answer to the Honda CRX and Ford Puma...
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