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Thu 5 Jun 14 20:59

MINI - 5 door Mini - TheManWithNoName

Why?

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Thu 5 Jun 14 21:35

MINI - 5 door Mini - VxFan

>> Why?

To appeal to people who want a 5 door car.
More practical.
To have a fuller range of cars (see first comment)

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Thu 5 Jun 14 21:54

MINI - 5 door Mini - Runfer D'Hills

I quite like that. Bigger boot y'see. I like bigger boots.

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Thu 5 Jun 14 21:59

MINI - 5 door Mini - Fenlander

Sorry... did you say big boots?

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Thu 5 Jun 14 22:00

MINI - 5 door Mini - No FM2R

I like big boots and I cannot lie.

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Thu 5 Jun 14 22:04

MINI - 5 door Mini - Runfer D'Hills

You lot are rather disturbingly starting to make me think of Benny Hill's character in the original "Italian Job"

;-)

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Thu 5 Jun 14 22:05

MINI - 5 door Mini - Boxsterboy

Now you're talking! Proper Minis, they were!

This new one should be called Maxi. Don't like it at all.

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Thu 5 Jun 14 22:08

MINI - 5 door Mini - Runfer D'Hills

Bit tempting to make a 'blow the doors off' remark at this stage. But I'll refrain...

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Thu 5 Jun 14 23:17

MINI - 5 door Mini - rtj70

Doesn't quite look right as a Mini with 5 doors. Maybe they should have stuck with suicide doors but had one on each side? That way it could look more like it should.

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Thu 5 Jun 14 23:39

MINI - 5 door Mini - bathtub tom

Didn't Innocenti do something similar with the real mini?

Or was that just 3-door?

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Fri 6 Jun 14 07:36

MINI - 5 door Mini - Meldrew

Wiki says "The Innocenti Mini is an automobile introduced by Innocenti in 1974. The vehicle was a rebodied, three-door hatchback version of the Mini, styled by Bertone. A five-door prototype was developed around 1980, but was never put into production. After having been sold to de Tomaso in 1976, the Innocenti Mini ended up being powered by Daihatsu-sourced three-cylinder engines and continued in production in incrementally updated forms until 1993."

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Fri 6 Jun 14 15:35

MINI - 5 door Mini - Avant

It'll sell.

It's quite difficult to see the point of having only two side doors, unless you actually want a coupé. Cars have got wider, but parking spaces and garages haven't, and those wide doors can be a real pain. Childproof locks mean that children are safe in the back of any car, and a 4/5 door car makes lifting a baby or toddler in much easier.

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Fri 6 Jun 14 15:42

MINI - 5 door Mini - WillDeBeest

Rear doors are most useful if there is somewhere to sit when you get through them. The three-door Mini is effectively a two-seater with no boot. Is this new version longer to create some space in the back?

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Fri 6 Jun 14 17:13

MINI - 5 door Mini - rtj70

>> Is this new version longer to create some space in the back?

Yes

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Fri 6 Jun 14 20:04

MINI - 5 door Mini - Harleyman

Reminds me of the FIAT 500L, and it's just about as appealing.

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Fri 6 Jun 14 20:18

MINI - 5 door Mini - Robin O'Reliant

It's a four door, not a five. A door is something a person uses to enter or exit something, that lift up thing in the back is not a door.

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Fri 6 Jun 14 20:20

MINI - 5 door Mini - bathtub tom

And a rear wash/wipe isn't a bidet.

But it's a succinct way of describing it.

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Sat 7 Jun 14 10:37

MINI - 5 door Mini - Boxsterboy

>> It's a four door, not a five. A door is something a person uses to
>> enter or exit something, that lift up thing in the back is not a door.
>>

Well on that basis, it's a two door as I know of many people (including more than one sister-in-law) who could never use those tiny rear doors :-)

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Sat 7 Jun 14 18:15

MINI - 5 door Mini - movilogo

If you discover that other people parked so close to your car that you can't open doors, you can technically enter via rear hatch. So it is a door.

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Sat 7 Jun 14 18:54

MINI - 5 door Mini - Robin O'Reliant

If I forget my keys I can technically get into my house through the window, but it still ain't a door.

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Sat 7 Jun 14 20:09

MINI - 5 door Mini - No FM2R

If you are thirsty you can drink a Budweiser, but it still ain't a beer.

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Sat 7 Jun 14 20:49

MINI - 5 door Mini - VxFan

>> If I forget my keys I can technically get into my house through the window, but it still ain't a door.

So is a patio door really a patio window then?

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Mon 9 Jun 14 09:56

MINI - 5 door Mini - Alanovich

I was pulled out of the tailgate of an upside down MG Metro once. I say it's a door.

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Mon 9 Jun 14 17:33

MINI - 5 door Mini - WillDeBeest

A door is something a person uses to enter or exit something...

Never seen the Sopranos, then? By that definition, even the saloons in that had five doors. And on the other hand, what do you call the flappy panels on the front of your kitchen cupboards?

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