New 2015 Mini Rendered In Coupe, Roadster and Convertible Forms

Well, I'll be darned; only hours after Mini showed off its new generation hatch during a special event in London today, and the first renderings of future iterations of the car have already surfaced on the web. Pretty amazing, right?

The culprit responsible for these photoshops is the Hungarian designer over at X-Tomi who imagined the 2015 Mini Convertible together with the 2016 Mini Coupe and Roadster.

Even though the first car (the soft-top version of the hatch – see it in these spy shots) is a given, we're not so sure that the Coupe and Roadster will live to see another generation, as recent reports citing company insiders have stated that the BMW Group isn't really pleased with the duo and is contemplating their replacement with a completely different, stand-alone sports car.

Photo Credits: X-Tomi

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Spied: New 2015 Mini Convertible Served with a Soft-Top on a Flatbed

Spy photographers have nabbed the 2015 Mini Convertible doing the Munich road rounds on an flatbed truck. The two-door, four-seater open-top iteration of the series should come into the picture less than a year after the new Mini hatch that's scheduled for a world premiere at the LA Auto Show later this month.

The two Mini models are virtually the same from the waist down, with the Convertible keeping the same setup as the current version with an electrically operated cloth roof and hidden rollbar hoops that only pop up in the event of an accident.

While the engineering minds in Germany and England have founds ways to cut pounds here and there, the Convertible will likely weigh more than its coupe counterpart due to the folding roof mechanism and strengthened chassis.

Mini has already confirmed that the new hatch and convertible will be offered with the BMW Group's highly anticipated, new turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder and 2.0-liter four-cylinder engines, with precise details to be announced in LA.

Photo Credits: CarPix for CarScoopS

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