This particular Mini Clubman is fitted with an MG Metro Turbo engine, but also a front-mounted radiator. BL could have fitted a front-mounted radiator to the production Clubman to refine the car in the face of growing criticism about how noisy the Mini was. Certainly the Bertone-styled <PERSON> and 120 Mini hatchback had a front-mounted radiator, something MOTOR magazine commented favourably on in a 1979 road test. Perhaps this was a symptom of BL's financial state.