Most liked posts in thread: MINI planning sports car to rival MX-5?

Only if it comes wired by Lucas. Otherwise, where's the excitement?

 

Great idea Crash and you are exactly right. I forgot they owned that name too.

 

Better front bumper treatment....
Until the hipster designer puts his pen to it for production....

 

A front wheel drive Triumph would be just about as big a sacrilege as a rear wheel drive Mini Cooper, and even with the name, would do little to attract the true roadster crowd that buys MX-5s.

Would Jaguar produce a two seater convertible in FWD...or who would buy a FWD topless Corvette?

 

I kinda like the looks of it, kinda how I kinda like the looks of the current Roadster. This is just an updated version of it. Not enough difference to it for me..That could easlily be the next Gen Roadster with the slanted back headlights just like the newer Coopers coming out... If it is going to be a stand alone car make sure it STANDS alone... Once MINI came out with other models I see no reason to have to keep them to the Cooper heritage. They are so far from it now with the Cooper why bother worrying about it with the different models.. Make the new "sports car" RWD they have the technology of course so just do it.. Sure some will gripe about it in the beginning but if it is a good car that's all that matters, assuming it sells...if not it's back to the drawing board in 4-5 years, just like now..

 

It would be too expensive to make a one-off rear wheel drive niche car that would sell in relatively low volumes--not going to happen.

 

The second part of the statement, that some of us would complain about a new r53, is 100% wrong, so that gives me 50 %. The first part, that 50% of us would complain about any Mini other than an R53, is actually wrong too,; 97.6% of us would still complain , but I thought I'd be diplomatic and ignore that. So half of 97.6 is 48.8%, add that to 50%, and the reality is he was 98.8% wrong.

So you are actually pretty close in your estimate.

On the other hand, 157.6% of people on these boards don't give a rats' ass about these stats, and an even higher percentage have my account on their ignore list, so I guess none of it really matters.

 

Put it on the Z4 platform.. and don't us the MINI name plate like the special edition Genesis Coupe ( I think it is ) that doesn't have the Hyundai logo on it..

 

And then of course there is the super secret joint sportscar venture between MINI and Toyota....
Called the "Miataeater".......and itsa hybrid too....

 

Funny how often ignorant half baked ideas and slide rule engineered milspec hard data dovetails into information that makes perfect sense but rarely gets us anywhere.