2025 Mini Cooper price and specs: Petrol version dearer, electric car up to $10,000 cheaper

The new 2025 Mini Cooper three-door will be up to $3440 more expensive with petrol power – but up to $10,985 cheaper in electric guise – when it arrives in Australia between July and September this year.

Both are known as the Cooper – previously '3-Door Hatch', with Cooper as the model variant only – but they are two unrelated Mini vehicles on different underpinnings, built in different countries.

The petrol three-door Cooper – due to be followed by a five-door hatch and two-door convertible – is a heavy facelift of the vehicle on sale since 2014, built in the UK on familiar underpinnings.

It is available in Cooper C and Cooper S variants – with a new John Cooper Works hot hatch expected to follow – which cost between $510 less, and $3440 more than their predecessors.

Meanwhile the electric Cooper uses an all-new, electric-car-focused platform co-developed by Mini and Chinese car giant GWM, built in China.

The cheapest version of the new electric Mini costs nearly $11,000 less than the previous electric Mini – the Cooper SE, sold in a single top-of-the-range Mini Yours trim – while the new flagship model, the Cooper SE Favoured, has a $5985 lower price than the old SE Mini Yours.

At $53,990 plus on-road costs, it is the most affordable the electric Mini has ever been – an entry-level Cooper SE Classic was once offered for $55,650 plus on-roads.

However, it is more expensive than similarly-sized electric cars from Chinese brands – including the loosely-related GWM Ora.

The model range has been reshuffled. Classic remains the entry-level Cooper S, but it is now the mid-grade Cooper C, replacing the previous Cooper Plus – while Mini Yours has been replaced by Favoured.

The petrol Cooper is slightly larger than the electric Cooper, though they look similar on the outside – and have near-identical interiors at first glance.

Powering the Cooper C is a 1.5-litre three-cylinder turbo-petrol engine developing 115kW and 230Nm, driving the front wheels through a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission for a claimed 0-100km/h acceleration time of 7.7 seconds.

Upgrading to the Cooper S introduces a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with 150kW and 300Nm, matched