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The five door F65 2025 MINI Cooper is here! Petrol powered, redesigned and full of updated technology, it’s the latest model in MINI’s 4th generation. How does to compared with the just released F66 and even the J01 electric MINI Cooper? Read on.
What’s New On The 2025 MINI Cooper Five Door
The F65 takes all the updates and modifications from the F66 three door and applied on a five door body. Even though MINI made the decision to heavily revise the F55 rather than to create an entirely new car, there’s almost nothing that the designers left untouched. The exterior design is evolved to match the J01 MINI Cooper with the goal to make them look nearly identical to the casual observer. MINI’s hope is that a potential buyer would be choosing ICE versus EV without styling differences to muddy the waters. However it’s worth noting that MINI won’t technically have an equivalent to the F65 five door in EV form. Instead it will offer the J05 MINI Aceman which is roughly the same size but in crossover form.
While the F65 is based on the previous generation F55 a lot has changed. There are no exterior parts (outside of glass and the roof) are shared between the two cars no matter how similar they look. The subtle changes are everywhere. One of the smallest yet most important are the lights. MINI has pushed the headlights forward and and made them slightly more upright. It means that this car feels more upright and a little closer to the R50 and R56. It also marks this car out as different than the sleeker J01 MINI Cooper EV.
F65 MINI Cooper Five Door: Design
MINI designers have applied the minimal design language we’ve seen on the J01 MINI Cooper by eliminating all non-functional vents, scoops and design elements.
The result is that the F65 has a clean and minimal aesthetic that at first glance looks refreshing. But more on our first hands-on impressions later. This is a car that is subtly new in almost every way. MINI has gone beyond just revising the bumpers, wheels and lights and have a completely new hood (with no faux hood scoop) and a rear hatch that’s been reshaped requiring... read the rest of the article here at MotoringFile.com