Motoring Discussion > MINI - Why..................
Thread Author: Roger. Replies: 10
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 Sat 5 Mar 16 15:21 
 MINI - Why.................. - Roger.
................. are the makers still calling it a Mini?
I saw a massive thing in a car park recently. nearly as big as our Jazz, and the badge on the back was something like a 4WD diesel Cooper S MINI.
What a lump it was.
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 Sat 5 Mar 16 15:38 
 MINI - Why.................. - Avant
Probably a Mini Countryman, which has most other cars beaten for chronic ugliness, apart from the Fiat 500L which looks very like it.
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 Sat 5 Mar 16 15:50 
 MINI - Why.................. - Runfer D'Hills
Maybe it's for people who want a Mini, but need more room. Or is it, that in the way that some folk buy dogs that look a bit like them, that the increasingly 'large' population are buying cars that look a bit like them too...

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 Sat 5 Mar 16 17:51 
 MINI - Why.................. - R.P.
That's why we have a svelte MINI Clubvan...
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 Sat 5 Mar 16 18:01 
 MINI - Why.................. - WillDeBeest
Someone who works in my building has a latish Austin Mini. Someone else has a Countryman. I once looked out of the stairwell window and saw them parked side by side.

An hour later I passed the same window and there was an empty space where the little Mini had been. The picture only needed a couple of discarded wheels in the empty space and a trickle of oily gravy on the Countryman's front bumper.
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 Sat 5 Mar 16 18:03 
 MINI - Why.................. - rtj70
MINI is a brand/marque. It is all capitals. It has nothing to do with car size.
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 Mon 7 Mar 16 09:48 
 MINI - Why.................. - Alanovich
I'd say a MINI Countryman is quite a bit bigger than a Jazz.

My Mum's FIAT 500l dwarfs my SAAB 9-5 and Mazda 6.
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 Mon 7 Mar 16 10:04 
 MINI - Why.................. - Zero
>> I'd say a MINI Countryman is quite a bit bigger than a Jazz.
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>> My Mum's FIAT 500l dwarfs my SAAB 9-5 and Mazda 6.

Aye, a pig among swine
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 Mon 7 Mar 16 10:24 
 MINI - Why.................. - Alanovich
Blimey, I didn't know you had anything against our Mazda, Zedder. Thought that was your kind of motor. I shall have to tell it. It will be disappoint.

SAAB MOT in a couple of weeks, looking forward to getting you all going about it again.
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 Mon 7 Mar 16 18:40 
 MINI - Why.................. - carmalade
So why don't they call it a Maxi ?/
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 Mon 7 Mar 16 19:09 
 MINI - Why.................. - Runfer D'Hills
Because Minis are perceived as trendier than Maxis? Actually, fairly much anything was trendier than a Maxi.
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