{"id":5413,"date":"2021-01-10T00:51:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:28:04","slug":"spy-shots-higher-performance-mini-diesels-spotted-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5413","title":{"rendered":"Spy shots: Higher performance MINI diesels spotted testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/mini\/\">MINI<\/a> is apparently not satisfied with the performance levels of its high mileage MINI D so it&#x27;s working on something a bit more spritely. The <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2008\/07\/22\/in-the-autobloggreen-garage-2008-mini-cooper-d-w-video\/\">current MINI D<\/a> is not especially quick right off the line, with a 0-60 time of around 10 seconds from its 108 hp 1.6-liter engine but it does accelerate rapidly once underway. To speed things up a bit, the boffins at MINI HQ have been squirreled away in their garage fitting the 2.0-liter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/diesel\/\">diesel<\/a> from parent company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bmw\/\">BMW<\/a> into the iconic small car. <br \/>\n That&#x27;s not a trivial task since all the BMWs that use the engine are rear drive with a longitudinal engine mounting. The MINI, of course, is front drive with a transverse layout. The first version with the BMW engine is expected to use the 150 hp single turbo engine from the 118d but something equivalent to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/mini\/john+cooper+works\/\">John Cooper Works<\/a> model could sport the 204 hp twin turbo unit <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2008\/08\/05\/in-the-autobloggreen-garage-2008-bmw-123d-3-door-hatchback\/\">we loved so much in the 123d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The faster model could sprint to 60 mph in under 7 seconds and still get 40+ mpg. BMW has acknowledged that it plans to bring its four cylinder diesel to the U.S. market and MINI has also said it would love to sell the MINI D here. We say, bring it on.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/News\/NewsArticle\/Mini-Concepts\/245339\/\">AutoCar<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/27\/spy-shots-higher-performance-mini-diesels-spotted-testing\/<\/p>\n<p>2009-11-27T07:50:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINI is apparently not satisfied with the performance levels of its high mileage MINI D so it&#x27;s working on something a bit more spritely. The current MINI D is not especially quick right off the line, with a 0-60 time of around 10 seconds from its\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9980,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/9980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}