That's what a Mini representative confirmed toMotorTrend, making it clear that comments made to the U.K. outletAutocar also will apply to our market. The specifics will be announced soon, but the gist is that certain offerings will be stopped, temporarily, and various configurations will be simplified and rationalized. Almost all of the changes are due to supplier issues with electronic components.

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You can see some of these changes reflected right now in the configurator. The 2023 Mini Cooper Hardtop 2-Door, for example, now starts at $28,250—the lowest trim level being the Signature. The Classic trim is no more, which for 2022 started at $23,750. That's a pretty steep jump up in terms of how much cash buyers have to cough up to get into the lowliest Mini offering.

Another change is a lack of manual transmissions. When the 2023 Mini line was announced in February, manual transmissions were to be available on eight different models. Now? Zero. But we don't think this change is just a convenient excuse to kill the transmission option—it's a key differentiator for many of Mini's models, and the JCW Hardtop has a manual take rate above 40 percent. Provided the supply chain issues don't stretch out for the 8 years it'll take the brand to completely electrify, the manuals should return.