The Five-Door Mini Cooper Is Entirely Unsurprising

Some car reveals can take you by surprise, bringing a level of shock and awe as a manufacturer drops the unexpected. Others, well, just aren’t that. Like today’s newest reveal. This is the five-door version of the F66 generation Mini Cooper, which comes as a shock to absolutely nobody.

Its reveal follows that of the three-door version of the internal-combustion only Mini Cooper revealed in February, which may look the same as the three-door J01-coded EV but is a different car underneath. Still with us?

No surprise, then, that it’s pretty much identical to three-door in every way other than the extra set of doors. It is a little bit longer than that car, though, with a 72mm extended wheelbase and 172mm longer overall length to give those in the back a little more space.

Engines are the same, though. Its entry point is the C, which deploys a 154bhp 1.5-litre three-cylinder engine that’ll take the five-door from 0-62mph in eight seconds flat – interestingly, three-tenths slower than that quoted for the three-door, a bigger drop than you might expect.

Then there’s the rather fruity S, with 201bhp and 221lb ft of torque from a 2.0-litre four-pot. Again it’s slower than the three-door, taking 6.8 seconds to hit 62mph as opposed to 6.6, but it retains an identical top speed of 150mph. Oh, and like the three-door, you can’t have this with a manual gearbox either –  the seven-speed dual-clutch remains.

Trims are the same, with the car available in Classic, Exclusive and Sport though unsurprisingly each version is a little more expensive than the three-door equivalent. The entry point for the five-door is £24,050, compared with £22,300 while the S rises by £1750 to £28,450.

We know there’s a hotter JCW version of the three-door coming, but it remains to be seen if that will also extend to the five-door. Keep your eyes peeled out for that one later this year.