Remember this rather eye-catching BMW Mini concept car? The Mini Beachcomber Concept was announced towards the end of 2009 and it certainly aroused some interest.
Unfortunately reports are beginning to appear that suggest that the Mini Beachcomber will stay just as concept and never enter into production.
Apparently vehicle safety legislation in the US means that the design as we see here is not strong enough to pass side impact tests and it’s just not possible to add all the extra side bracing that the law requires a vehicle like this to have.
Mini Beachcomber