if it hasnt been posted yet. http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...rossover_spied

 

Yecccch! They succeeded in removing everything cute and charming about the Cooper. It's called a "Mini" for a reason.

 

Will that paint job be optional??

 

Typical Americanization of a small car (see first Hondas, Suzukis, Toyotas, etc.)

 

Doesn't look very nice!!

 

I hope at a bare minimum that the roof line is more like the concept than in the magazine photo...

 

fugly.

 

I'm fine w/ the whole thing (not that it matters), but I must say, as a coupe guy, my dream MINI came about in 2002. I truly hope the crossover retains it's MINIness somehow.

 

Write to the MINI people and express yourselves, good or bad !! They need the feedback

 

I agree, yuck! keep it MINI.

 

That's a hell of a body wrap(Hey look at me!) for a concept they want to keep on the DL.Looks like Chit anyway.

 

I suspect the existing MINI community will not ever look fondly on a bigger MINI, but it will probably be a very cool car and sell very well. All we ask is that the brand remain strong and well-connected to it's roots.

 

I actually see more classic Mini cues in that than the current Clubman! (minus the lift kit and the fact it's still about 4x bigger than a Mini should be)

 

If MINI was gonna make a crossover that is somewhat practical, I guess that would be about what it would look like. The further they get away from the R50/53, the less I like them, anyway.

 

That thing is an oxymoron with an engine...

 

It's an ugly looking Clubman. ...where's the puke icon when you need it...

But I guess this also spells doom for the "MINI Support Vehicles" of the world.

What am I saying? If MINI is going to keep at this, let's just slap a MINI logo on an SUV and be done with it. It's not going to be built at Oxford anyway.

 

It is even more horrid than the Clubman. Everybody still wants to be in the SUV market. I hope this thing tanks and hurts BMW so badly that they have to rethink the MINI altogether. No better way to get things back on track. I am all for enhancing the R56/R57 MINI but am not for turning the brand into a whole line of ridiculous cars.

There are already plenty of station wagons and SUVs. I would like to see a MINI diesel in the U.S. as well as a proper performance version of the S (rather than the current pretend version and underperforming JCW) with symmetrical AWD and real power.

 

Lutz had said: "The consumer is not always right."

I think MINI/BMW are thinking along the same lines. We'll see what develops...

 

I had a guy driving a Lexus LX470 checking my car out last week. His first comment was "you know they're about to come out with a MINI SUV?" Sad, but true.

 

I like the rollback roof on the concept, but the biggest turnoff is the grille. It just looks too big. A MCS style grille might look better, or thinner silver bars. It also seems too bubbly and cartoonish, like the talking claymation cars in the old commercials by Nick Park animation.
I understand the Clubman. I don't need one, but I understand the appeal- but this one just seems out of proportion, and loses the Mini lines. I can even understand why you might want a slightly bigger Clubman that sits higher for mild offroad use, but this just looks like a smaller, bubbly X1 or something.

 

No accounting for taste. Personally, I'd like to see something more utilitarian and truck-like in the MINI conceptual framework -- less luxo-off-road. But as I've posted elsewhere, the more weirder, the more better as far as I'm concerned.

 

The front grill looks like Jeremy Clarkson's face when he's testing the Ariel Atom:



Lets just say I am not happy. I was hoping for a "Crossover" MINI, not a Mini "SUV" At least with a Crossover, it would still hang low like a mini, but this is absolutely hideous.

BMW, what have you done to the MINI?

 

Or Wallace with a frown.

 

Here's another picture

 

Looks like the offspring of a Nissan Rogue and a Clubman...