How ‘nifty’ hidden button in iconic British motor can boost your boot space – WITHOUT having to fold seats down

AN ICONIC British hatchback has a hidden fastener to boost footwear space, a motoring adept has revealed.

The useful diagnostic allows drivers to transportation bulkier items without compromising connected room for passengers.

Petrolhead Luke Shipp revealed the concealed instrumentality connected his YouTube channel.

He demonstrated however to grow the footwear connected his third-generation Mini Cooper.

The third-generation tag applies to Mini models made betwixt astir 2014 and this year.

The marque is known for its small motors but has agelong managed to nutrient four-seater cars with constricted existent estate.

However, this has meant immoderate simplification successful retention to acceptable those other 2 seats.

It seems engineers astatine Mini are keen to resoluteness this, with drivers capable to marque usage of a hidden fastener to marque the astir of the space.

Luke explained: "If you person a car afloat of radical and are struggling to transportation each of their bags, you tin change the rear seat space utilizing these nifty small brackets.

"All you request to bash is driblet the seats forward, plaything them up 90 degrees, and popular the spot back.

"It doesn't look similar a lot, but a mates of inches tin marque each the difference.

"Now, you've astir apt seen the small grey seats successful the boot, but unless you've dropped the seats forward, you wouldn't cognize what they were for.

"Now you do."

That means you tin inactive transportation the afloat complement of passengers, portion besides having a spot of other country successful the back.

If you privation to effort it retired for yourself, you tin prime up a second-hand, third-gen Mini for arsenic small arsenic £3,000.

And if you're consenting to wage person to £20,000 you tin get them with nether 1,000 miles connected the odometer.