Here are some pics of my Hot Wheels Hot Orange MINI after the first round of "mods". I still have to touch up the Orange areas before I start on painting the seats. When I get finished, I am hoping it will look like Gromit when I brought him home. After I finish the interior, I'm going to try to find some bonnet stripes. In the end, the wheels will be different, but I think I can modify just about everything else without destroying the "mini-MINI".
In the pics my Hot Orange paint is noticably different from the car's paint due to the flash, but in natural light it is really close. I painted some of the chrome under the front grill and along the bottom of the rear bumper, and you can't tell the two colors apart unless you look really close.
At a later date I may get a second Hot Wheels MINI and detail it to match Gromit as I start doing some mods.