Detroit 2007: your guide to the show - Mini

Final fling for Mini Convertible
Mini unveiled this Sidewalk special-edition version of its Convertible at Detroit.

Priced from £16,910, and available in the UK from April, Sidewalks come with a package of extras including leather upholstery, 17-inch alloy wheels and a two-tone leather steering wheel and gearknob.

Stability control, traction control, a multi-function steering wheel, a trip computer and passenger seat-height adjustment are also added to the specification.

Add these bits on to a standard car, and you'd be spending 25% more, so if you fancy them, it's not a bad deal.

A run-out model then - there's a new Convertible just around the corner?
Not quite. We might have the second-generation version of the hatch, but the next Convertible is farther off than that.

Quite a lot farther off, in fact - Mini won't be building a new Mini Convertible until 2009.