Mini Brings Again Guide Transmission Possibility for 2023

Guide transmissions are an endangered species. At our final rely, there have been fewer than 30 fashions on the market on the U.S. market that supply a stick-shift choice. And with each new mannequin 12 months that quantity appears to get smaller and smaller. However the previous few years have proven that automakers acknowledge fanatics’ love for manuals. Mini is a kind of automakers, and it’s bringing again the stick-shift for some fashions in 2023.

Beginning in November 2022, patrons will be capable 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 may 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 in some unspecified time in the future 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 because of — you guessed it — provide chain points. However now we will rejoice, as a result of the guide is again for ‘23.

There are different updates to the Mini lineup for 2023. New particular editions embrace the surprisingly named Resolute, Untold and Untamed. The Resolute could be had in distinctive exterior colours like Insurgent Inexperienced with a white roof and a singular carbon black inside shade. The Untold is just obtainable 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 just obtainable 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 working all the way in which as much as $49,075 to begin for a John Cooper Works Countryman.