The MINI Cooper convertible has a 3-n-1 soft top roof that features an automatic sunroof and a glass rear window that is what?

zbeckabee

The rear window is glass, is heated and adds a high quality look. http://www.motorbar.co.uk/miniconv.htm Aug 03 06, 10:52 AM

What-A-Mess

The car is NOT a MINI Cooper. It is a Cooper MINI. MINI is the model, Cooper is the producer/brand name. BMW subdivision. The original Mini (1959-2000) was a revolutionary and distinctive small car designed for the British Motor Corporation (BMC) by Alec Issigonis and made in Birmingham. The first 850 cc Mini was produced in 1959. John Cooper of the Cooper Car Company was loaned an early production version and fitted it with a 997 cc engine, boosting power from 34 to 55 bhp (25 to 41 kW), and disc brakes. Through the 1980s, the British market enjoyed numerous "special editions" of the Mini, which shifted the car from a mass-market item into a fashionable icon. It was this image that perhaps helped the Mini become such an asset for BMW, which later bought the remnants of BMC as the Rover Group. It was even more popular in Japan, where it was seen as a retro-cool icon, and inspired many imitators at major Japanese automakers. There was also a Mini Cooper revival, with the uprated metro "A+" version of the 1.3 L engine fitted in to the car. The engine was also fitted with modern electronic fuel injection�first single-point, then on the final models, a multi-point system. http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Mini http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Mini Aug 03 06, 1:19 PM

What-A-Mess

Continued from above... Launched in 2001, the new MINI (note capitals, sometimes unofficially called BMW MINI) is built in Cowley in Oxford, United Kingdom. Historically this was the Morris car plant. The new MINI has a Brazilian-built Tritec engine. Like the original, this is a transverse four-cylinder unit, driving the front wheels. The styling of the car, like that of the new VW Beetle, is deliberately reminiscent of the original. The car has been criticized for its poor space-efficiency compared with the original, but it has quickly become a sales success in Europe and (from 2002) in the US. It comes in 4 models: the MINI One, MINI One D (with a Toyota-built diesel engine), MINI Cooper, and MINI Cooper S. In the US market, only the MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper S are sold. The car is featured in the 2003 remake of The Italian Job. New for 2005 production are the MINI Cooper (and S) convertibles, as well as a redesigned front and rear fascia for the hardtop models. Aug 03 06, 1:20 PM

Baloo55th

In What-a-Mess's first post above, there is a confusing statement by the author of that article. it implies that the Mini was an asset for BMW who later bought the rest of the old British Leyland group. BMW only acquired the Mini when they bought the Austin-Rover part of the old BL, and not as a separate deal beforehand. And Mini IS tha producer name, not Cooper. The original Minis were the Austin Se7en (note spelling) and the Morris Miniminor. The British public rather took to the Morris name, and shortened it to Mini, and then applied mini- to all sorts of other things, notably skirts. Probably too many people remembered the original Austin 7, which although comparatively reliable was somewhat of a rattletrap. In BL days, the name Mini appeared to became a producer name, as BL were very quiet about the producer name on certain models, like the Ambassador. Later it did become a producer name, and is so now. http://www.globalautoindex.com/maker.plt?no=1426&g=Mini Aug 03 06, 1:35 PM

zbeckabee

What-A-Mess If it is NOT a MINI Cooper...how come part TWO of your post has repeated references to the "MINI Cooper?" Aug 03 06, 3:10 PM