3rd Gen JCW F56 MINI Cooper S John Cooper Works at Detroit Auto Show

I see a real opportunity for DuelL AG to fix this.... Or maybe they were the template.

DuelL FB...

Don

 

^^^^ Sorry but those body kits look like boy racer cars. They are not that good looking at all.

 

Nothing wrong with "racer" cars, now ricer (aka SoCal's best), I could understand.

DuelL makes some nice stuff, a bit stellar for pricing, but nice. :eek6:

But if they wanted to do a front end for the F56, they could go with a retro look and make some money. :idea: :ihih:

Don

 

I don't see why everyone is so against it. I don't think it looks half bad at all.

 

^^^ Different stokes as they say. You see half bad & I see pretty darned ugly.

 

I was only using the word 'Racer' to be politically correct Vs the JDM equivalent term.

Yeah I said I was trying to be politically correct ..... :lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

What???? You must be sick, very sick. Someone send out a tricked out clubman ambulance at once!

 

Hey that's my street sign! :devil: 666 Hell Street. :mad5::devil:

 

Mmm I've tried to be open minded but I just can't help it and have to say this. BMW could you possibly have screwed this up any worse? Mechanically there's some great ideas, and some real duds (no dipstick), but this is the most god awful exterior design abortion imaginable. Who on the design team said hmm...yeah catfish are sexy. Oh and lets put tail lights on it that are so huge they can be seen from orbit. The exterior design is a caricature, and a bad one at that. It's a good thing BMW decided to have commonality of parts. Should help lessen the sting when sales suck. Damn sure I'm not going to buy one. I'll stick with the R53 and R56, drive them till the wheels fall off, then buy or build another. (Rant mode off)

Happy Motoring

 

After looking at the F56 over and over again, I dont think they are half bad... Just all the pictures show the ugly half!

There should be a factory graphics package that says "It looks better from the other side." That way any perspective on-lookers step into traffic and see what the ugly front end is for!

 

I dunno. It's really a double whammy. The new euro pedestrian standards result in an ugly car, and now with the added safety, it can't even properly kill you when it hits you. I mean, seriously...when you say "I'd rather be dead than see an F56", just as you're about to be run over by it, you can't even have a properly gruesome demise.

 

I would rather die then drive an F'56.

 

Would you put that on the top of the car? :biggrin5:

 

Look some caught a free F56 from that ship that tuned on its side......:lol:

 

The guy's name is Ian Cooper? Really? :lol:

This should be a Caption Contest! My entry:

"MINI engineer Ian Cooper tests an F56 prototype for water tightness at the factory's dunk tank in Oxford."

 

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Looks like an ugly Hot Wheel. BMW should have consulted with the Mattel Hot Wheels design team. They would have done a better job.

 

Stevie Wonder with Michael J Fox drawing could have come up with better design.:lol: