The MINI Superleggera concept thrilled designers and captivated onlooker’s hearts again in 2014. Simply yesterday, we introduced you just a little perception into how the automobile got here to be. And apparently, MINI hasn’t forgotten about it both. The MINI Superleggera made a uncommon look on the corporate’s traditional Instagram web page carrying a vibrant new shade of (unspecified) metallic gold. A commenter instructed Sunburst Gold, however it’s equally prone to be Strong Gold metallic, a coloration that’s appeared on MINI automobiles previously. The pictures present the automobile’s folding comfortable prime reducing in a sequence of 19 photos.
The brand new coloration, which is reportedly a vinyl wrap fairly than precise paint, replaces the automobile’s preliminary hue of Cosmo Blue. The blue paint was developed solely for utility on the MINI Superleggera. So, it is sensible that MINI would wrap the automobile fairly than repaint it. The brand new coloration isn’t the one factor that’s modified for the reason that final time we noticed the automobile. Like at Ville d’Este 2014, the automobile wears black-painted wheels. However as a substitute of the multi-spoke design we final noticed, the MINI Superleggera now rocks John Cooper Works alloys.
The MINI Superleggera Is Really Distinctive
Whereas the MINI Superleggera is pretty recognizable as one thing particular, its cool design does little to trace on the distinctive powertrain beneath. The MINI Superleggera is, in actual fact, one in every of MINI’s earliest EVs. It’s a transparent philosophy mash-up of the 2 firms that made the MINI Superleggera a actuality: MINI, after all, and Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera, a Milan-based store specializing in physique work. Touring Superleggera has labored on all the pieces from small-batch hypercars to specialty one-offs and all the pieces in between. The MINI Superleggera options high-end supplies, together with leather-based and aluminum, and even dons a small entrance splitter constituted of carbon fiber strengthened plastic (CFRP).
When the MINI Superleggera launched, Adrian van Hooydonk, then BMW’s Senior VP of Design, arguably mentioned it finest. He claimed that each firms “connect nice significance to their historical past and that is one thing which defines their outward look. These parts are merged within the MINI Superleggera Imaginative and prescient to create a sublime car which interprets a British roadster below the affect of Italian type and hand craftsmanship.”
Much more than a decade later, the commentary holds up — to say nothing in regards to the automobile’s design. With enhanced electrification skills at MINI’s disposal, possibly the MINI Superleggera nonetheless has a life to dwell. Although this innocuous function on the model’s traditional web page is probably going nothing to look that far into, who is aware of? Maybe the higher-ups are giving it a re-evaluation.
