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It's a Mini Supercar!

It's a Mini Supercar!

Author: Kasia Yoko
Date: 2014-06-06
Looks more like an old Austin Healy than a Mini

Mini the carmaker has teamed up with the Italian firm, which helps build Aston Martins and Lamborghinis, to produce a super cute mini roadster. This one is for the ladies.

The new concept car has been recently unveiled by Mini bringing the formally small hatchback into the supercar league. The Mini Superleggera Vision is ultimately a sports car, the Thunderbird-like front end looks really sharp, and the taillights look groovy.

The Superleggera's front features traditional Mini design accents - two circular headlights and a hexagonal grille. The classic Mini bonnet stripes are three-dimensionally embossed and run on into high-quality polished aluminium accents.

"It was a pleasure for me to design a concept like this," said Anders Warming, head of Mini Design. "The Mini Superleggera Vision elegantly perpetuates what the Classic Mini started 55 years ago: reduction to the essentials."

"Its energetic, minimalistic design embodies the dynamic essence of an automobile. At the same time it creates unique emotional beauty in combining thepast and future of the automotive industry, i.e. traditional coachwork craftsmanship and modern design styling."

"MINI and Touring both believe that proportions are the key factor of beauty, and share the same values of essentiality and innovation," says Louis deFabribeckers, head of design at Touring Superleggera

Shunning the small dimensions that have made the car firm famous throughout the world, the new MINI concept features a stretched bonnet and long wheelbase of asports car.

This electric vehicle was constructed from hand-shaped metal sheeting and the interior features high-end materials such as leather, aluminium and blackchrome.

It may not be a Mini, but it's sure as hell is one of the prettiest cars I've ever seen. It is up there with the Astons. Sadly this exclusive model has been created especially for this year's Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, a classic car festival at Lake Como, and not for me.