Mini crossover clean diesel

Mini crossover clean diesel

 The mini! In my eyes it's the brand that best reflect youth, cute,fresh  and energetic personalities. If driving a lambo will help you attract beautiful woman, driving mini will help you attract cute young,cute  girl. Don't drive this one, old, grumpy man. Any way,the crossover clean diesel is the 6th car that I've test driven so far, and as always, the brand live up to its reputation.

I choose the crossover more because of the powertrain other than anything else. Wel'l get to that later, but first, lets talk about appearance.

The looks

 

While most other model line up looks cute, crossover have more masculinity blend in its appearance. Note the shape of the headlight, which swells out above the body line. The best way to looks the car maybe from its side, where you can see the whole car's dimension which resembles more of a SUV.

It's a no surprise to notice that the crossover's size have increases in millimeters more. It has a length of 4105mm , 400 mm longer and a width of 1790mm, 100mm longer than the standard one. Bigger mini, bigger space.

Check out the side signal light which looks like a glow stick with the stripe accent. While  other have interchangeable signal accent, which can be changed with other design, crossover have a fixed one, so be sure about choosing the color. What's interchangeable is the side mirror cover , which comes with tons of options.

The interior

 The interior haven't changed much with the standard model. Keyless slot underneath with push start button, rev counter at the counter and speedo at the dashboard. It uses more round shape as the mini visible trademark, as the hexagonal shape in Lamborghini .Monitor navi screen come as an option, but I strongly suggest you  take as it's really a necessity to use navi when you live in intergalactic, super pack crowded area like Tokyo as it is really unforgiving if you miss the turn. Oh, and did I told you the handbrake looks more like a paper cutter's lever?

You pay more for the crossover for reasons. Obviously space is one of it. This one comes with 4 doors, with the rear seat have the standard space as any other sedan, means a 6 feet adult can fit in perfectly in the seat or you can put in the baby seat.to be precise, the front and rear seat have a 40.4 in and 33.8 in leg room. The bonnet has a 44.2 cubic feet of space, so unless you're stuff in your surfboard which you need to fold the rear seat, a standard medium size luggage shouldn't be a problem. It took a while to figure out how to open the rear gate, when actually you need to push on the emblem to open. 17 or 18 inch worth of tires should fit perfectly for those crossover's shoes.

The Muscle

I don't have any experience whatsoever driving neither truck nor lorry, but I know very well the sound of that engine. That loud, violent thumping of the piston usually followed by chunks of smoke.  And the engine in this one have the same pitch too. The difference is that they've figured out how to reduce the volume, so you'll know you're not driving a lorry. But you'll have torque as the lorry, as the diesel engine squeeze 270Nm at 1500-2500rpm, and 305Nm at 1750-2700rpm for D and SD model respectively. For comparison the gasoline only produce 160Nm torque at 4250rpm, so with the diesel engine a little push on the gas would translate faster acceleration. The engine is actually a BMW N47 used in BMW 1 series, 2.0L  inline 4 cylinder engine, with average fuel consumption of 15km per liter. A full tank can get you from Tokyo to Aomori in one go. Apart from the engine there isn't much change on the transmission, so you'll get either the 6 speed auto or 6 speed manual transmission.