The Mini roof tent will give you an April full of fun

It's exactly a year to the day since Mini first unveiled their roof-top tent and we're still desperate to get our hands on one

Mini announced their arrival in the camping market on 1 April last year but since then it's all gone a bit quiet.

In fact we're beginning to wonder if they will ever see the light of day and that the whole thing wasn't some elaborate hoax dreamed up by someone at BMW headquarters in Germany (and we all know about that famous German sense of humour).

So if you missed the announcement first time around, here's what Mini told us they have in mind. It all looks rather good, don't you thnk?

According to their press release, the Swindon roof-top tent can be fitted easily to the roof of a Mini, Mini Clubman or Mini Countryman, and  offers sleeping space for two people.

Mini said: "Having found a fittingly dreamy place to catch a stylish night’s shut-eye, it’s just a case of climbing up onto the roof of the Mini, lifting up the upper half of the roof-top tent box and plumping your pillows ready for impact."

"The roof-top tent works a treat, whether the location for your beauty sleep is the English shires or the foothills of Kilimanjaro. Indeed, should you have chosen one of nature’s livelier spots to spend the night, the elevated sleeping position will keep passers-by from the animal world at arm’s length."

The design of the roof-top tent box allows it to blend in seamlessly with the Mini when closed. Its lower shell is painted Midnight Black, the upper opening section in Chili Red – a combination previously the preserve of John Cooper Works models.

And it's not just tents. Mini's statement also revealed they were catering for the older camper with the introduction of a  "sumptuously appointed" two-berth caravan for "do-it-yourself summer holidays peppered with spur-of-the-moment detours along the way."

The “Cowley” caravan has two sleeping berths, a twin-burner gas-stove, a water tank with pump and dish-washing facility, a solar module to charge the on-board battery and a 230-volt power connection to supply the refrigerator, TV/DVD and hi-fi stereo system.

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