Mini Cooper E

[wovenrovings]

I see the Mini Cooper E is being sold in Australia. Website says price is $34 870. That must make it about the cheapest new EV available?
Has 230 -260km range too...
Has anyone see one on the roads here?

[coulomb]

I see the Mini Cooper E is being sold in Australia. Website says price is $34 870. That must make it about the cheapest new EV available?

Um, that seems to be the price for the petrol version. I'd say the electric might be a tad dearer. Perhaps the price isn't even settled yet. I doubt that there is stock in Australia as yet.

But I hope I'm wrong and your're right

[brendon_m]

Current guesstimate for the mini e is $55000aud.
Even so at that its not too badly priced considering its a bmw i3 with nostalgia factor (which is $70k car)

[g4qber]

https://www.caradvice.com.au/822013/202 ... ic-review/

[antiscab]

my partner has wanted a mini cooper since forever......not sure how I feel about dropping another $50k

[brunohill]

https://www.caradvice.com.au/822013/202 ... ic-review/

"The claimed driving range is up to 270km, but 230km on the European WLTP driving cycle.Given the target buyer is a city slicker driving that many kilometres in an average week, the balance seems appropriate."
I thought that equated to 1610km or more per week before you need to go to the service station, or fast charger.

[g4qber]

Perhaps a new section of Cars needed?
I.e. Mini?

$59,990 drive away

Went to Mini Garage, Burswood, West Australia
Eugene, Mini Sales manager says 90 Mini e’s allocated to Australia
On Previous % allocation there possibly will be 6 for WA.
4 EOI’s for now so 2 left to order.

4 Colours
A) White Silver
B) Moonwalk Grey
C) Chilli Red
D) British racing green
All same price.

Online ordering was mooted due to COVID-19 should dealerships have to close.

https://ev-database.org/car/1163/Mini-Cooper-SE

11kw 3phase AC charging
Heat pump

[rhills]

I'm probably being a bit pedantic here, but aren't Mini's made by BMW these days?

[brendon_m]

Made by BMW, using BMW platforms (i3 in this case) and BMW parts and often sold in BMW dealerships with spare parts being supplied by BMW dealers and BMW wreckers.

[g4qber]

Perhaps this thread could be moved to Bmw section ?

[brendon_m]

My personal vote would be a separate Mini section to help with searching but moving to the BMW section also works (unless minis become super popular)
Or leave it here, it is "other" after all

[coulomb]

We already have so many forums, I'm reluctant to splinter them more. I suppose we could create a Mini forum as a sub forum of BMW, but I don't like sub forums where I come across them.

What do you think about renaming the BMW forum to "BMW and Mini"? It's still reasonably short.

[g4qber]

Sounds good.
Just realised that need Mercedes section for EQC now
Perhaps need to also have Audi/Porsche/VW?

[brendon_m]

Agreed, the motorbikes/scooters could all be condensed into a single forum as well. Possibly with sub forums for each brand but even just lumped altogether.
But that's probably a topic for somewhere else.

[jonescg]

Considering Porsche, Audi and VW are all part of the same conglomerate, I reckon you can fuse them.
Likewise, BMW and Mini can be joined, as can Nissan / Renault?

[coulomb]

Considering Porsche, Audi and VW are all part of the same conglomerate, I reckon you can fuse them.

Hmmm. Perhaps I'll wait on the sub-forum experiment, see below.

Likewise, BMW and Mini can be joined, as can Nissan / Renault?

I'll resist with Nissan/Renault, since a divorce seems as likely as not in the next year or two.

I've renamed BMW to "BMW and Mini", and created sub-forums Mini and i3. All other BMW posts stay in the "BMW and Mini" parent forum. We'll see how much we like or hate the subforums. I note with approval that you can see the BMW sub-forums at the outer level, so you don't need to click twice to get to the i3 forum, for example.

If we're mostly in agreement in a few weeks that this is a good idea, I can consider more mergings and sub-forums. For example, "VW group" with "Volkswagen", "Audi". "Porsche" subgroups, with maybe even sub-sub groups for popular VW and Audi models.