Take that Goodwood: Vilner’s MINI Inspired by Bentley

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  1. Nathan

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    The BMW Group’s decision to launch a new posh version of the Mini hatch called “Mini Inspired by Goodwood†motivated Bulgarian design studio Vilner to develop its own luxed-up variant of the British supermini. However, while the Goodwood model received the Rolls Royce touch, Vilner’s proposal tries to emulate a Bentley – at least in the interior.

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    Even though Vilner has baptized the car “The Italian Job†as homage to the famous movie, for obvious reasons, a more appropriate name would have been “Mini Inspired by Creweâ€. The Bulgarian company has dressed the Mini hatchback’s interior with fine materials such as brown Nappa leather and Alcantara, with parts of the seats, door panels, dashboard and roof lining featuring a diamond shape theme. In addition, the doors have gained elements of black leather while the original plastic was re-sprayed in a sparkling gray finish.

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    Vilner also took care of the Mini Cooper S’ exterior which sports a grey matte foil-wrap with contrasting black racing stripes and a matching color roof along with new 18-inch alloy wheels.

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    Source - Take that Goodwood: Vilner’s Mini Cooper S Inspired by Bentley - Carscoop
     
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    I really like that interior. That is the best looking (worthless) rear seat I have ever seen. I might leave mine in if it looked like that. Nice job. :D

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    Do you thing Lyle of VinyL stYLEs could wrap my GP to match that exterior? That is pretty sweet.
     

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