MINI to release Performance Crossover vehicle?

For the longest time, MINI has always catered to a specific compact car audience. But now that car buyers are becoming more and more sophisticated with their auto preferences, MINI has decided to follow suit.

We’ve heard for a while now that the BMW-owned carmaker is working on a Crossover vehicle, but the latest news to come out of the woodwork has MINI in the initial stages of producing a Performance Crossover that we can only expect will bolster the company’s intention of introducing new vehicles to a number of different demographics.

Proof that these guys are serious about branching out from their traditional compact car niche lies in the fact that, in addition to the ‘two’ Crossovers, the company has also been working on producing two other vehicles – the MINI Speedster and the Progressive Activity Spacebox – which, if everything goes according to plan, would be rolled out of the plant sometime within the next two years.

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