Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Mini Paceman Adventure pickup

Yes you read the title correctly, it says Mini and pick up in the same sentence. It came around by BMW apprentices at Munich and Dingolfing working in collaboration with their instructors to build a ‘creative vision' for the Mini brand. They did so by chopping the hideous end off the Mini Cooper Paceman S and removing the bench seat giving a Mini Cooper actual cargo space. On the roof is a 'off road' style roof rack that houses a spare tire or as Top Gear suggested "a gun turret, if you're equipping it for the impending apocalypse."

 The chassis was modified to give the car more ground clearance and was also equipped with Mini's ALL4 four-wheel-drive system affix to a turbocharged 1.6-litre petrol engine bringing forth 184bhp. In the standard Paceman S it will do 0-62 mph in just 7.8 seconds and reach a top speed of 132 mph. Now imagining doing that in a pickup!

You would not find this thing rock crawling, but it would do great on a desert road or crossing a river because they even attached a snorkel to allow deeper water crossings. They added a plethora of lights on the roof and bumper plus off road tiers. Unfortunately this radically awesome Mini will most likely not reach production, which makes me sad because I love that green.









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