I was surfing Car UK's web page and they have a web article on the official release of Min Clubman pictures.

Looks pretty cool to me, what do you guys think?

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/first_o...sid=901&page=1

 

Looks like it will carry bicycles and dogs Is a PW/PW Clubman in your future?....with lots of carbon fiber pieces

 

Question: In RHD countries like the UK, will the suicide door be on the other side?

 

I think you are the CF god of Ohio, I would not want to step on your feet

Only way they would get me to buy a new generation is if they move the volume **** for the radio, that is a deal breaker for me.

Also Cooper was bummed you were not at AutoX yesterday he really wanted to drive your car

 

Meh. Like the suicide door, but the longer wheel length really looks... odd. Convenience-wise though, I have ti say that I'm jealous - the ability to carry a bike in a MINI is nothing to sneer at.

 

I thought Cooper was the King at others cars until I read this post this morning https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...d.php?t=108984

 

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'm not a big fan of the Clubman. The MINI's design appeal for me is the spritely, spirited, quick, light-on-the-feet, turn-on-a-dime sportiness. The Clubman comes across as a unique and clever utility wagon (and I understand the connection to the heritage vehicle), but not much more.

Perhaps it will attract people from the small station wagon crowd. The car will likely be viewed as a novelty, but I'll be surprised if it drives any more than a small fringe fanatical following within MINI Nation.

 

Based on this article, it looks like it's always on the right regardless if the car is RHD or LHD....

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/first_o...sid=901&page=2

 

sorry, takes the mini out of MINI. Now I'm starting to sound like a Mini owner.

Really do not like what they did to the boot

 

I kind of like it. Reminds me of a song. Baby Got Back!!!

 

I can put my bike in my MINI... what's your problem? Got a tandem or something?

 

Anyway, I agree mineartg - if I want a station wagon, I'll get a Subaru Impreza WRX....

 

bike...I don't need no stinkin' bike I got a MINI.

 

I GOTTA like it, as the larger size is the ONLY way my wife will ever want to drive it. Gee, then we'd be a 3-MINI family.

 

With the drivers seat all the way back , "no stinkin' bike" would fit in your MINI anyway

 

Bike in MINI -

back seat down, front passenger seat slid and tilted forward - front wheel off bike... it all fits pretty nicely. Be sure and have a drop cloth for that pesky chain and derailleur. Driver seat can be wherever you want it to be.

 

Maybe those guys ride unicycles.

 

Unicyles...ouch

 

Well *I* could fit a bike in the cabrio's boot if I dissassembled it, first, too!

 

You could fit a bike in Fiona if we remove the top How did this thread go from pics of the clubman to insertion of a bicycle in a MINI (did I say that?

 

::: Shakes head ::: Man you DO have a one-track mind today, don't you, dude?

 

Thanks Mark, now I have this mental picture of a topless Fiona being violated by a bicycle in my head(I think it is time to go home).

 

insert insert joke here.

 

OH GOD NO!!! Now I do too!!!!

 

gutter, gutter, gutter...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned how to fit a kickstand into a MINI

or

Clubman, who named it that?

insert-just trying to keep up.