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well if bmw stole the idea from rover then surely it's rover's fault for the lack of "mini" about them?

i passed my test in one as well... interior is fooking awful - sure i posted this on another thread but u have an anologue speedometer in the middle of the dash for everyone... and a digital one on the dashboard... y the fook werent the the opposite way around lol

i dont mind the new minis... and how can u say they dont resemble the original minis.. it's like me saying the previous astra looks nothing like the previous astra... correct, it doesnt but the mini still has features that were in the original that make it a mini and v distinguishable...

yea ok, they lack the poke (unless u get a higher end model) and they r huge, plus they lack the go-kart feel... but it's a modern era... times have changed a lot... plus u'd struggle to get a big engine in a classic mini without A LOT of work and money lol

anyway this thread is relating to the hideous convertible, yyyyyyyyyy!!!!!! - that's worse than the clubman!!

Of course its Rover's fault; well actually, it's the same reason the 425 was never released, BMW forced tightly controlled what they could and could'nt do, and forced them to make it big.

Having said that, BMW's take on what the Mini should look like was even worse than the eventual one, at least Rover got it looking somewhat like a Mini lol:



Either way though, there all crap imho. BMW did have the decency to leave them with the best car of the BMW-Rover era however, the R40 (Rover 75) lol.