Thread: Would you pay $68,000 for a Roll-Royce-inspired Mini Cooper?

Mini and Rolls-Royce have teamed up to create the Mini Inspired by Goodwood, a Mini Cooper with the type of lavish interior you would normally expect to find in a Rolls-Royce motor car. It may seem a bit bizarre that one of the most elite automobile brands in the world would team up with a low-budget brand like Mini, until you realize that both were most likely driven together by their parent-company BMW. Starting with a Mini Cooper S, Rolls-Royce has added its expertise to give the three-door hatchback a lavish interior with a few exterior upgrades.

Mini says the Mini Inspired by Goodwood features top-grade materials and a high level of workmanship. The dashboard and door-handle surfaces are finished in Walnut Burr, a wood that was formerly exclusive to Rolls-Royce. A black nappa leather dashboard, leather door linings, and Piano Black buttons on the steering wheel and center console provide additional accents. Floor mats with a deep-pile lamb-wool quality, another Rolls-Royce trademark, cover the floorboards. The exterior receives the Rolls-Royce treatment as well, with a Rolls-Royce exclusive Diamond Black metallic paint and 17-inch wheels sporting a multi-spoke design.

The Mini Inspired by Goodwood will cost 46,900 Euros, or approximately $68,000, and will be limited to 1,000 units.At first glance, paying $68,000 for a Mini Cooper may seem absurd. But is it any less absurd to pay $31,000 for the smaller and less powerful Aston Martin Cygnet? A product based off a Toyota. Maybe the Aston Martin Cygnet is the first in a new line of small low-budget automobiles that will carry some big brand names. If that is the case, the Mini Inspired by Goodwood’s only problem is that it doesn’t carry the Rolls-Royce moniker. Paying $68,000 for a Mini Cooper may be absurd to some but paying the same for a new low-budget Rolls-Royce based off a Mini Cooper may have just the righty amount of panache to do well.





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No... I honestly don't get who they are making these cars for? Even the Aston... how many dudes who are dropping M3 money would say... nope... i'll take an Aston Cygnet or RR Mini over it?

I can't imagine the cars would sell well in Dubai either as there is no need for a small city car over there.

Anyone else see what i'm clearly missing?

Originally Posted by ADV.1 Matt

Anyone else see what i'm clearly missing?

people with money =/= people that make "good" decisions.
not saying everyone with money is dumb, far from that. just many people that have money often spend it on stupid shit.

I wouldn't pay $68 for a mini... let alone a "Rolls Royce" inspired one.

This at least makes a bit more "sense" than the AM/Toyota.

Would I buy it? No.

But....considering a hopped up JCW can end up mid-40k with all the options, its not too outlandish to charge 20k more for a Rolls-Mini.

These will sell like hot-cakes....there are way more than 1,000 teenage girls whos parents can pony up the cash....

Originally Posted by SpecB

This at least makes a bit more "sense" than the AM/Toyota.

Would I buy it? No.

But....considering a hopped up JCW can end up mid-40k with all the options, its not too outlandish to charge 20k more for a Rolls-Mini.

These will sell like hot-cakes....there are way more than 1,000 teenage girls whos parents can pony up the cash....

That's what I was thinking, rich daddy doesn't want his little girl in a normal mini but if it has RR as part of it then it's OK.

That costs the same as an A5 Audi Coupe! why would anyone buy that.

Originally Posted by nytrydr

That costs the same as an A5 Audi Coupe! why would anyone buy that.

Exactly, why bother anyway.

I'd rather have a Scuderia version

Hell no!