Beep beep! You hear that? That’s the sound of distracted drivers all over the place as a result of Pokémon introduced a brand new collaboration with Mini (in any other case often called Mini Cooper) to deliver a brand new Pokémon-model of the electrical Mini Concept Aceman automotive. The particular mannequin was revealed at Opening Night Live at Gamescom on Tuesday.

The hatchback has a neon, futuristic look to all of it that’s very harking back to an LED gaming setup. A trailer exhibiting off the totally electrical hatchback exhibits the beloved Pokémon entrance and middle on the digital dashboard. As you begin of the automotive, an electrical animation performs as electrical bolts mild up throughout the dashboard. The mannequin additionally sports activities animated pixelated entrance lights on its bumper, in addition to customized puddle lights that shine “Mini x Pokémon” whenever you open the doorways.

According to Oliver Heilmer, head of Mini Design, you may join your gaming console to the automotive, nevertheless it’s unclear what this implies. (Perhaps we are able to play Nintendo Switch whereas the car is parked and charging?) Also, there’s a built-in projector in case you get the urge to rewatch outdated Pokémon motion pictures whereas hanging out below bridges with your folks. The Pokémon Mini is mainly a specialised model of a beforehand introduced mannequin, which you’ll be taught extra about at Mini’s web site.

Heilmer mentioned that Mini is selling a “playful mindset” and that the official motto of the collaboration is, “Play on. Never stop playing.” We can solely hope that this motto isn’t utilized actually, since none of us need to bang fenders with drivers who had been itching to catch uncommon shiny Pokémon.