{"id":533628,"date":"2010-04-19T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T11:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=55058"},"modified":"2010-04-19T07:33:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T11:33:44","slug":"exclusive-5-door-mini-cooper-hatch-in-the-works-for-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/533628","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: 5-door Mini Cooper hatch in the works for North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/2011_mini_countryman_press_images_side.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to our source, BMW Group is planning a five-door version of the Mini Cooper for the United States.\u00a0The source said that BMW recently held a consumer study group around the United States where they showed visitors a prototype of what a future 5-door Mini Cooper would look like.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not sure if Mini plans on using the standard chassis for the new 5-door Mini or plans on sharing components with the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/tag\/mini-countryman\/\">Mini Countryman<\/a> crossover. However, like the Mini Countryman, the 5-door Mini hatch is expected to remain a four-seater.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported last year that Mini is planning a 5-door Volkswagen GTI fighter. If given the green light, the 5-door Mini hatch would be built alongside the  Mini Countryman at the Magna Steyr factory in Austria and won\u2019t appear much  before 2012.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K8F7fYtTh3q2EM5w6cdx7Cx-ktg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K8F7fYtTh3q2EM5w6cdx7Cx-ktg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K8F7fYtTh3q2EM5w6cdx7Cx-ktg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K8F7fYtTh3q2EM5w6cdx7Cx-ktg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=yLIpk9GYobc:QmMgNfgvA30:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=yLIpk9GYobc:QmMgNfgvA30:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=yLIpk9GYobc:QmMgNfgvA30:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=yLIpk9GYobc:QmMgNfgvA30:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=yLIpk9GYobc:QmMgNfgvA30:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=yLIpk9GYobc:QmMgNfgvA30:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=yLIpk9GYobc:QmMgNfgvA30:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to our source, BMW Group is planning a five-door version of the Mini Cooper for the United States.\u00a0The source said that BMW recently held a consumer study group around the United States where they showed visitors a prototype of what a future 5-door Mini Cooper would look like. We&#8217;re not sure if Mini plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}