'MINI' Countryman, saw my first one today...

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What a pig ugly excuse for a 'MINI'. Issigonis must be spinning so fast in his grave, you could generate electricity.

How can they possibly still call it a MINI? (yes its MINI not Mini) its fking huge. I watched it drive past a RR Vogue and intimidate it*

Just my thoughts, anyone else spotted them in the wild?

• this may be a slight exaggeration, but they are frickin' huge...

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Stu R said:

Huge? No.
Significantly bigger than a MINI? Yes, that's sort of the point.

MINI is a brand, not a declaration of size.

I understand that, hence the MINI, not Mini.

But the name alone is stupid.

And they are huge...

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Superhoop said:

The most important question is Shirley.....

Have you finished washing your eyes out with bleach yet?

It has to be almost as ugly as that really ugly Ssanyong people carrier thing

Luckily I had some spoons handy which I heated and gouged my eyes out completely with.

I'm actually typing in braille.

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Medic-one said:

I'm just sitting in the ambulance bay at a&e at the moment and just thought the exact same thing as I'm looking at one, parked between a Clio and an Merc e classe estate and its bigger then the Clio and acutely looks bigger then the Merc as well.

Its higher then both cars. It shouldn't be called "mini" anymore really...

The one I saw parks on the same road as a Classic Mini, I'm hoping to get a pic of them near each other at some point, i get a feeling the comparison would be hilarious.





I have a quiet life ya know.

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I'm not an anti fan at all, the garage I used to work at sold MINI's, and I often drove them, and I love how a Cooper S drives.

I personally think making a crossover SUV of a car called MINI is simply ridiculous, its brand engineering at its very worst. It's not a Mini, or a MINI.

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Sniff Petrol nailed it tbfh

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My god that looks terrible.

At least the one I saw was a (probable) 20k+ thing with nice paint and big shiny shiny wheels..

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PW said:

Nissan would probably call it the Nissan Countryman, no?

Just like Mini are calling it the Mini Countryman. You all know that's the name of the company, it isn't trying to be the world's first Inappropriately Self-Captioning Car, right?

Surely the 'company' is BMW. The brand is MINI.

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PW said:

Brand names are literal descriptions of the product's appearance is where we are up to now.

Keep going - I really don't give a stuff about the car; I just want to see how tortured PH hate-logic can get.

Or you could read back and see I don't hate the brand, or the MINI.

Let's face it, the original Mini was named so because it was, er, how do I put this so you understand... small.

When BMW took the name, they kept it small(ish) the Countryman just isn't is it?

Still with us?