Launched February, 1988
1,000 Mini Red Hot's and 1,000 Mini Jet Black's were sold in the UK
UK cars sold in Flame Red (Red Hot) or Black (Jet Black)
Cost when new - £4,382
Another 4,000 Mini Red Hot's and Mini Jet Black's were sold in export markets.
The Mini Red Hot and Mini Jet Black
clearly mark the Mini's progress from the shadow of death with
the introduction of the Metro, and the start of the Mini's
ascendancy as a fashion icon, or indeed a fashion accessory. In
the designer obsessed, post 'Big Bang' late 1980's, the Mini Jet
Black and Red Hot strikingly mirrored the power fashions of the
Yuppie era. The Mini Red Hot was appropriately finished in red,
with a full length black coachline encircling the body from one
door, via the rear of the car to the other door. Similarly the
Mini Jet Black was black, and bore a contrasting full length red
coachline from door to door. Both cars featured either 'Red Hot'
or 'Jet Black' logo's in the usual places on the rear side panels
and bootlid
Both cars where fitted with chrome bumpers,
door handles and exhaust trim, with full width silver plastic
wheel trims. Unusually, both cars had a unique feature, in that
the outer rim of the 12" steel wheels visible between the
tyre and the silver wheel trims was painted very distinctively in
red. Inside the car the red & black theme continued with
black velour seats with red piping, black carpets, black trim and
red seat belts. More distinctive features adorned the outside of
the cars, with each carrying a 'Red Hot' or 'Jet Black' grille
badge on a black grille, and black windscreen wipers. Finishing
the package was Syndym tinted glass (with chrome framed opening
rear windows) and a push button MW/LW radio.
The Japanese export models of the Mini Jet Black and Mini Red Hot again featured the unique alloy sports steering wheel first used on the Mini Park Lane.
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Black Mini Red Hot decals
| Part Number | Description | Price (UK Pounds Sterling) |
| KPC 1834 | N/S & O/S decal | £10.69 |
| KPC 1833 | Boot lid | £16.63 |
| KPC 1836 | N/S & O/S coachline | NLS |
| KPC 1835 | Rear coachline | £6.45 |
| KPC 1837 | Grille badge | NLS |
Red Mini Jet Black decals
| Part Number | Description | Price (UK Pounds Sterling) |
| KPC 1829 | N/S & O/S decal | £10.82 |
| KPC 1828 | Boot lid | £15.69 |
| DAE 10091 CNR | N/S & O/S coachline | £9.77 |
| KPC 1830 | Rear coachline | £6.45 |
| KPC 1837 | Grille badge | £2.97 |
| Notes: | 1. | Prices quoted are in UK Pounds Sterling and in the UK are subject to VAT @ 17.5%. |
| 2. | NLS = No Longer Serviced (i.e. not available from Rover). |
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| 3. | Prices quoted are from the Rover Parts Retail Price List effective from 5th July 1999. |
Members Cars
The Mini Red Hot and Jet Black in Miniature
No die-cast models of the Mini Red Hot and Jet Black are known to have been produced.
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The UK No.1 Single in February,
1988 was...
I Think We're Alone Now by Tiffany
Also in that year... Some of the news from 1988
Fatal Attraction is a Box Office hit... Fourteen million Britons are hooked on Aussie soap'Neighbours'... 150 died in North Sea oil rig fire... Ben Johnson was stripped of gold at Seoul Olympics for drug-taking... Russian video game Tetris was released world-wide... George Bush was elected US President... 36 died in Clapham Junction rail crash... Kylie Migogue should be so lucky - and at number one with I Should Be So Lucky she was... 270 were killed in the Lockerbie disaster... Roy Orbison and Russell Harty died... Bros topped the charts with I Owe You Nothing...
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Last modified: Mar 05, 2003
By: Andrew Murray