The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have recently performed a few tests.

One of the cars which went under scrutiny was the Mini Cooper. Only 3 small cars from a total of 19 which were tested have managed to get great results, the Mini being one of them. The car is average when it comes to side impacts, but it performed great in frontal and rear accidents. The test are conducted in a safe environment and the Mini Cooper was crashed at 40 mph into a stationary vehicle. At the rear side test, another car bumped the Mini at 20mph. In the end, the test have revealed the fact that Mini Cooper is not only a cute, small car, but a vehicle which can coupe with most crashes easily.

Everyone is afraid of buying small cars because of the safety issue, so I guess it is great to know that a few vehicles were tested and performed great.

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The 2009 Mini Cooper Cabrio was finally released by the people from BMW, just a few days ago.

The car is available in two different versions, the Mini Cooper Cabrio and the Mini Cooper S Cabrio. The first engine can offer 120 horse power with a 1.6 liter engine, reaching a speed of 123 mph and 60 mph in 9.8 seconds. The car has great fuel efficiency, somewhere around 6 liters/100 km, which is 38.5mpg. The Mini Cooper S Cabrio has the same 1600 cc engine, but it can develop 175 horse power. How is this possible? Direct fuel injection and a turbocharger. The top speed is 138mph and it takes only 7.4 seconds to reach 60 miles per hour. The S version will take one liter more at every 100 km.

The most interesting changes took place at the exterior, as we can obviously see from the pictures provided by globalmotors.net.

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