This is awesome
Automobile: NEWS: Frank Stephenson Interview (May 14, 2013)
On the MINI Countryman
“Oh, my gosh, I don’t like it. I mean I don’t like the whole new trend at all. I think they just wildly abused the brand. And they’ve gone away from their roots in such a way that now the buyers are not the same buyers.”
^^^ that's sums up everything we have been saying about BMW killing MINI.