{"id":83813,"date":"2009-12-15T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/15\/detroit-preview-mini-beachcomber-concept\/"},"modified":"2009-12-15T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T23:25:00","slug":"detroit-preview-mini-beachcomber-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/83813","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Preview: MINI Beachcomber concept"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Concept Cars<\/a>, Crossover<\/a>, Mini<\/a>, Off-Road<\/a><\/p>\n

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MINI Beachcomber concept – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nWe still have few more months to wait before the production version of the new MINI Crossover<\/a> arrives, but the folks in Oxford will be dropping a new concept in Detroit<\/a> next month to tide us over. Think of the MINI Beachcomber as the melding of one of Alec Issigonis’ progeny with a Jeep Wrangler. The Beachcomber is based on the brand’s new CUV, but gets an open-top\/open-sides look reminiscent of the American off-road icon. <\/p>\n

Unlike the mid-sixties Mini Moke, this one retains the main structure of the upcoming crossover, but is unlikely to ever see production. The new all-wheel drive system in the concept and the turbocharged four cylinder are both expected to appear in the production Crossover, although the 4,000-word press release somehow manages to avoid giving any actual technical details. Like a Wrangler, the Beachcomber can accommodate either solid roof inserts or a soft top. Hopefully we’ll get more details in Detroit, but before then check out the release after the jump. <\/p>\n

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Gallery: MINI Beachcomber concept<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Crossover, Mini, Off-Road MINI Beachcomber concept – Click above for high-res image gallery We still have few more months to wait before the production version of the new MINI Crossover arrives, but the folks in Oxford will be dropping a new concept in Detroit next month to tide us over. Think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83813","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=83813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}