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Here it is then – the proof that the MINI is no longer mini… After a series of more unusual body styles cueing people up for the era of change, BMW has revealed the first images of the new MINI 5-Door Hatch ahead of its debut at the Paris Motor Show next week.
The wheelbase of the 5-dr is 72mm (or almost three inches) longer than the 3-Door model, while the boot space has been increased to 278 litres – still not huge by the standards of the class, but big enough for the extra shopping and pushchair that many owners of the original BMW MINI find themselves lugging around these days. And that’s exactly what MINI has done – created a car to appeal to those who bought the first generation cars as youngsters to keep them buying the MINI brand.
An extra three inches in the wheelbase to fit in doors. And legs.
A good thing? Well, it depends on how your bread’s buttered, for there will no doubt be hundreds if not thousands of fans of the original Mini out there who are mortified that the iconic name is being applied to a more family-oriented hatchback being sold in the busiest sector of the European new car market. In many respects, and as a classic Mini owner, I’m one of them.
It is a very good car, if you don’t like it fine don’t buy one simples. Just remember that to BMW, MINI is a brand not a car and the only true options are BMW Mini or no Mini at all and all those UK jobs gone.
Looks hideous like a Marina coupe in reverse i.e. it looks like they have used the front doors from the three door instead of coming up with some shorter ones.
Clearly a Friday afternoon afterthought of a job.
Maybe they reasoned that the front doors will be used far more often than the back and sized them accordingly?
No doubt a future generation MINI will have rear doors LARGER than the fronts as their loyal customers become back-seat passengers in their dotage.
Like women’s fashions we see changes in style which we can associate with an era, and a 1960s car will look different to its predecessor in the 1950 and 40s.
Perhaps the style of the latest MINI, stegosaurean rear end, high door waist and stunted glass area is set to be the style for the next 10 years.
The Mini brand is the descendant of Morris/Austin Morris. The Mini name just became cooler for various reasons than Morris or Austin by the time BMW came along. It was inevitable after the success of the new mini and subsequent off shoots that this car would eventually appear. Looks fine to me and I’m sure it’ll be pricier but cooler than the venerable but very good and loved Austin 1100 and the Maxi development.
Just hope its made in the UK and not Holland to give it greater credibility, so we can tip our hats to Herbert and William. I’m sure this car will sell well.
Aye, Margaret Beckett was made in Britain too.
I did some background reading, the BMW MINI was styled bythe American Robert Stephenson, he departed the USA BMW studio for Fiat around 10 years past, he then worked for several years on Fiats including the current 500 series, before joining MacClaren.
This may explain my subconscious association with the 500L Fiat, I could be tempted to own a 500L, the balance of purchase price styling and practicality would suit my needs, but certainly not this particular MINI.
For how many years have the drawings for this “new” MINI been sitting around, did they pre-date the 500L by 5 years? To my eyes the 500L is fresh and appealing, losing the stodginess of the BMW.
It is a logical model.
In the 13 or so years that the 3 door hatch has been available, many of the original owners have had life events occur.
When we looked at a Mini 3 door, we did think about futureproofing. The upgrade plan a year or so ago was to sell the Countryman.
We aren’t particular fans of the current fashion of crossover SUVs, we ended up with a runout model Leon instead (which is a lot bigger than a Mini).
If Mini is looked at as a spiritual Austin range, it makes more sense.
The first concepts of the ADO16 – XC9002 – looked like an enlarged 5 door Mini. This is just following those footsteps, and would’ve had precedent had Leonard Lord not insisted on Paninfarina involvement.
Is it true that production of the 3 door is being shifted to the Netherlands to create capacity to make the 5 door at Oxford?
Those rear doors look slightly awkward, being rather small and very vertical looking, I don’t know whether a 4-light configuration, more conventional doors and a thicker C pillar would look more attractive, albeit at the expense of rear visibility?
Looking at the bottom picture, it does seem that the fuel filler cap is one of the reasons for the short doors.
The over-stuffed wheels, both in diameter and width, ruin the looks of this car, they rule out any prospect of visual balance of the vehicle, this car reminds me of a woman with a dress size 8 north of the waist, size 18 south.
OK, there is some irony in calling it “Mini”, but its hardly a big car either. I’m glad to see BMW effectively reincarnating BMC even if all the cars have the same name. Indeed if you look at all the cars Mini and Jaguar are making between them, British Leyland’s range is just about replicated, or at least matched in terms of numbers of variants. Difference is they are all good cars with a common engineering base, rather than a rag bag of unrelated tat.
At last, a large 5-door supermini offering made in the UK to replace the popular, and sadly missed, Rover 25 and MG ZR.
Hopefully this will be another success story for the Oxfordshire-based workforce.
We had recently had the option to buy a Mini but the ergonomic slum overstyled interior put both of us off. We were similarly uncomfortable in the UK built Honda Civic which has a coal-hole cabin and awkward instruments. In the end we opted for an Audi A1 which is a refreshingly high quality car with a simple to understand interior and controls.
Whilst I have no problems with the “Mini” I think perhaps it should be re-christened at least a “Midi”. It would also be more attractive if they could make the interior easier and controls and simpler to use.
It’s tempting to call it a Lifan 320, just better made!
I made a comment in thegrambler.com that this car was a monstrosity that will sell by the bucketload in spite of its looks. I compared it (a little unfairly, admittedly) to the car designed by Homer Simpson in an episode of the Simpsons. Apart from the basic-shape version, the rest of the MINI range is ‘aesthetically challenged’, but still sells. BMW seem to be able to sell anything as long as it carries that magic MINI moniker – even this upturned bathtub on wheels!
They are no longer Mini’s.The Countryman and that thing above are nearly the size of a Foerd Transit Connect!!!..
Its hardly a big car…. I think thats what someone said..
So kindly explain to me why a “small family car” is WIDER than an SD1?
Also Kindly explain to me why a MINI (hint: the name) Countryman is wider and at least as high as a Freelander?
This is just a continuation of the cars designed for the rich and gormless.. It the iPhone of cars. The iPhone is lagging behind the competition, increasingly pointless but 15x the price.. the MINI is lagging behind the competition, is twice the price and is technologically behind the times – at least the 500 has the *cough* Fordson *cough* MultiAir engine, which may sound like a ride on lawnmower with emphysema but has its good points..
Its very simple – try to keep up. MINI bears no relationship to the original Mini, in comparison it is like long walks in the Cotswolds to long walks in the Cotswolds by taxi.. Heaven forfend you might experience rain or sun or any weather at all.. ditto road noise, or any requirement for driving ability.
The sad thing is this car is perfect for our “society” – Hitler or Stalin (or Blair/Cameron for that matter) might have called it “sociopathy with a social face”. It harks back to a better time, with the whole point of that time taken out back and shot. Like Online Bingo – all the activity and none of the point or effect… The point has been so utterly missed by all of it. Arsebook, socialising without the social – ditto Online Bingo – the whole point is the social side of it, which is entirely lost. The MINI – A resurrected Zombie version of Issigonis’s finest work, which has been deliberately drained of the enjoyment and the soul of its namesake yet sold on precisely those