Mini Brings Again Guide Transmission Choice for 2023

Guide transmissions are an endangered species. At our final depend, there have been fewer than 30 fashions on the market on the U.S. market that provide a stick-shift choice. And with each new mannequin yr that quantity appears to get smaller and smaller. However the previous couple of years have proven that automakers acknowledge fans’ love for manuals. Mini is a type of automakers, and it’s bringing again the stick-shift for some fashions in 2023.

Beginning in November 2022, patrons can be ready to order a 2023 Mini with a guide transmission — however solely on hardtop variations of the bottom Cooper, Cooper S, or John Cooper Works. In different phrases, you will get any two-door Cooper with a guide, so long as it’s not a convertible.

Mini has had a roller-coaster time with guide transmissions. The automaker quietly pulled the guide sooner or later in 2019, citing points the place a gasoline system replace required additional testing. The stick-shift choice triumphantly returned to Mini’s lineup in early 2020, solely to be eliminated once more in early 2022 as a consequence of — you guessed it — provide chain points. However now we are able to rejoice, as a result of the guide is again for ‘23.

There are different updates to the Mini lineup for 2023. New special editions include the surprisingly named Resolute, Untold and Untamed. The Resolute might be had in distinctive exterior colours like Insurgent Inexperienced with a white roof and a singular carbon black inside shade. The Untold is barely out there on John Cooper Works, Cooper S and Cooper S All4 trims. It may be had in both Midnight Black Metallic or Sage Inexperienced Metallic. The Untamed version is barely out there on the Cooper S Countryman All4 and is available in both Momentum Gray or Nanuq White with body-color exterior accents

Mini has additionally added different new paint colours and simplified the pricing construction and trim choices. The 2023 Mini goes on sale in November with pricing beginning at $28,600 for the bottom Cooper two-door and operating all the best way as much as $49,075 to start out for a John Cooper Works Countryman.