Re: Mini, a luxury car?
As you might have guessed I do not like the new "Mini"
Hear hear!
For a start it's not a Mini. It's a fairly ordinary small/medium car that happens to be vaguely Mini shaped[1]. If you want to have a look at what Alex Issigonis would have probably built as a replacement, have a look at a Daithatsu Cuore VII. It's like a roadgoing TARDIS for use of space.
Also, if you look at what Daihatsu did to that later to make the Trevis (Europe only, not UK) you'll see that they were perfectly well aware of what they were doing.
[1] Apart from most of the sinfully fugly niche models developed from it, which have even given that up.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
