WOWW 2023 Mini Cooper Hardtop interior exterior

Now well into its third generation, Mini s retrostyled Hardtop has been around since BMW rebooted the brand 20 years ago. Stylists and engineers are working on the fourthgeneration model, and the company revealed the cheeky hatchback is in line to receive its most significant makeover to date. Mini boss Bernd Körber told Autocar that the project s motto was don t screw with an icon, which means the fourthgeneration Hardtop will keep the heritageinspired design that has characterized it for the past two decades. And yet, it will be drastically different than the model that s currently in showrooms. It will be smaller, though it likely won t be as tiny as the original Mini from 1959, and it will showcase a purer approach to design. The idea of a smaller, lighter Mini has us wondering if the new Hardtop could take some inspiration from the 2011 Rocketman concept. What you ll see in 2023 is that we ve clearly modernized it by taking a big step