If two car manufacturers were once at opposite ends of the automotive spectrum, they would be Mini and Rolls-Royce. Mini makes fun but compact hatchbacks for the masses without wash, while Rolls-Royce builds luxury cars for the well-heeled. You probably do not want to park a Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe in the streets of Manhattan at night, but on the other hand you don't want to be summed up in Hotel de Paris of Monte Carlo in a Mini Cooper. It's the expectations, I guess.
At least it was until Mini announced the Mini model inspired by Goodwood, to debut at the Shanghai motor show next week. The name of the hometown of Rolls-Royce, the Goodwood is built under the watchful eye of Rolls-Royce consultants. Get a Rolls-Royce inspired internal painting of Rolls-Royce (metallic black diamond), (in its color property, Cornsilk) and even gets the Cooper S engine, good for 181 horsepower. As attractive as possible, the interior is nearly above the top. Mats are made of thick lambswool, in the same way that Rolls-Royce models. The script of Walnut Burr is covered with black leather of Napa, as in a Rolls-Royce. Even the circuit breaker has gone from luxury and now has a piano black finish.
There is no word on what the markets will get the Mini Goodwood, or what will be the price (suggestion: much higher than a Cooper S basis). Mini says the car will see production, and they insist that 1,000 unique for all markets will be built. In contrast to the Aston Martin Cygnet, requiring prior Aston "qualify" for the purchase, property standards do not exist with the Mini Goodwood. Sure that it will be expensive, but it would be the closest that most of us can come to the purchase of a Rolls Royce.
