A welcome addition to the Mini family

SOME time ago I asserted that there were nearly as many Mini variants than there were rabbits on the back beach at Barleycove in West Cork.

Well I can tell you now that there are more Mini variants than there are rabbits in Barleycove. A strain of myxomatosis introduced mysteriously to the area last summer killed the lot of them. The Mini range, on the other hand, still appears to be reproducing on an industrial scale like, well, rabbits.

We’ve had the Hatch, the Convertible, the Countryman, the Coupe, the Roadster and the Paceman, all of which have had varying levels of impact on the buying public, but it is probably safe to say the Hatch is the version which has been the most successful for the brand. And now it has a new string to its bow.