You may want to keep these words on file, as we doubt we’ll ever say this so eagerly again, if indeed ever, but this is a Mini that you will want to run out and buy.

That’s if they ever build it, of course.

This gorgeous beauty is the Mini Superleggera Vision – a concept car spawned from a collaboration of the legendary British manufacturer and Touring Superleggera, a Milanese coach building company.

As is often the case with concept cars, a production run rarely sees the light of day. But we hope the bigwigs at BMW Group - they own Mini of course - see sense and put what would unarguably be the coolest Mini ever onto the road.

It’s a fine example of modern British engineering meeting classic Italian flair, and it’s left us wondering why those two age-old principles don’t come together more often. Because, based on these results, they really should.