Here's the new MINI SUV, to be unveiled at the Paris car show:

http://new.minimania.com/web/Display...s/ArticleV.cfm

Anyone like it?

 

not that bad......

 

Not too bad but I'm still not sure that's really it.

 

I think this concept looks really cool

 

Fake MINI, won't even be built at Oxford. But I wonder how they're going to market it, since MINI is all about Small, and an SUV pretty much automatically goes against that concept...

 

"Oxford plant which builds the Mini has no free production capacity due to high demand for the Mini model".

That's good to know!

 

I think both pics above look ok to me. They gotta butch it up somehow!

 

A little late in the game to be touting anything with the "SUV" moniker attached:

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/rising-gas-pric.html
But I kinda like it...

Waiting for the flatbed, stakeside pickup Minis that I saw tootling around London in the sixties.

 

i actually like the MINI SUV better than the clubman.

semi resembles Volvo's XC90

 

oh noes, I feel like we've been down this road before...




...just substitute Crossman for Traveller and shake, don't stir.

 

It's just a 4 door with 4wd (probably). That makes it an SUV? Are you gonna ford that stream, venture up that shale filled hill, tow that popup (can already do that) trailer on a camping trip? Seriously, a 4 door Mini would probably sell, and that's all it is.

 

I'm certain it will be a popular model in a lot of areas...it's kind of growing on me.

Lots of folks weren't too keen on the Clubman either - until they saw it in person or drove it. I suspect the same thing will happen with this model.

Donna

 

Cool pics--who's making them? Hubby says he'd consider alternative designs...

BTW, there's a plaid MINI running around Houston.

 

Say, is that Back Woods Traveler concept available in your choice of camo? I'd go Seclusion 3D.

 

Those were a parody on the Traveller concepts that MINI debuted at the Frankfurt, Tokyo, Geneva, and Detroit Auto shows in 2006. I thought that I might take it a tad farther than they did just for chits & giggles.

In '06 I was contacted by an employee at the Oxford plant for a hi-res version so that posters could be printed to hang around the plant...or so I was told.

 

I think it will be cool, its nice to see the MINI line doing so well. I don't think I would ever get one, just because I like the uniqueness of the MCS but I wouldn't dog it either.

 

They are putting a mini exterior stylings on an BMW X1 platform. This is tiny by SUV standards and is more like a clubman with better ground clearance. I agree thought that they have left the brand alone.

 

It does go against the concept, but I wonder how it will work compared to the clubman. I mean if its not much bigger and just has 4 doors people may go for it instead of the clubman or the other way around. It will have to be different enough to draw a group that wouldnt buy a clubman instead of stealing customers from itself. Guess we will have to wait and see.

 

I'll make a bet it includes a slightly heavier capacity for towing, too, which REALLY won't be bad for towing the "fun" cars to rallies, events, the track, etc. If I had the extra moolah (and the hubby would quit yanking my chain about some schmuck like "we have too many cars already"), I'd go for it.

 

It's not an SUV it's a SAV.

 

Not one I would get, the MINI SUV, I adore my MC.

I figure it has to be superior on mpg to SUVs and minivans and those muscle machines out there, so if it pushes those big gas guzzlers off the road, would be a good thing in the long run.

Perhaps lighning will strike, and the average American driver will stop thinking that big is safer on the roads, and buy the MINI SUV or its BMW cousin. Well, after said average American driver first checks himself or herself out of the burn unit of the local hospital.

And it does have the MINI look, albiet MINI on steriods.

CROC 411

 

One man's smokin' hot car is another's butt ugly.

Is there rear storage in the suv(it's not big enough for capital letters)?

 

It's irrelevant to form an opinion based on Photoshop renderings made up by the press. That is all we've seen so far.

 

BMW seems to be making every single car for every single niche they can think of. soon they're gonna run out of numbers in their model lineup.
It's all about the bottom line for them..

 

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