It’s official: Mini Cooper D not coming to the U.S.
By Andrew C., 27 Aug, 2010. 0 Comments
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After months of haggling, it's becoming clearer that the R56 MINI Cooper D may never set their wheels on US soil. The reason is that the costs for converting the European Diesel engine to US specifications are too large for a three- or four-year production run. Even if MINI USA charged 10%-15% more, they'd never make any money. And if MINI USA priced the car at 40%-50% more to pay for the re-engineering required, few would buy them at today's moderately low fuel prices. However, plans for the R60 based Cooper S D to be available in the US are still up in the air so stay tune as we'll have more updates in the coming weeks.
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