The Mini Paceman is a 3-door SUV from Mini, built from 2012 to 2016, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Dirk Müller-Stolz drew it.
How it came about
The Mini Paceman is a three-door subcompact SUV sold by German automobile manufacturer BMW under the Mini brand. It is the three-door counterpart of the R60 Mini Countryman. It was introduced as the Paceman Concept at the 2011 North American International Auto Show.
The production model debuted in September 2012. Like the Countryman, the Paceman was offered with a choice of two or four-wheel drive (known as ALL4), and with 1.6-litre petrol or diesel and 2.0-litre diesel inline four engines in various states of tune. Unlike the main Mini Cooper model, the Paceman was not built at BMW's UK plant in Cowley, Oxfordshire, but in Graz, Austria, by Magna Steyr, along with the Countryman. BMW ended production of the Paceman in late 2016 as executives felt it was positioned too close to the Countryman in Mini’s line-up.
The hardware
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1255-1330 kg. It shifts through a 6-speed manual / 6-speed automatic. The wheelbase is 2596 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Mini Countryman (F60); assembly was at Graz (Magna Steyr), Austria. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Tesla Model X, the Peugeot 208, the Mazda CX-5 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Mini stablemates include the MINI Beachcomber and the Mini (3rd Generation).
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