Here's a thought...

When you click the 'next blog' link at the top, why is it that you generally get an American chick with brightly coloured patch work/curtain style backdrops? Quite often they have pleasant info about their trip to New England or South Dakota, copious pictures of kids, friends and animals, with the occasional quote or proverb for good measure.

On mine you get moaning, politics and abuse - who has got this blogging thing right then?

Once upon a time

Well back in the 60's and 70's Mini's were cool.  In fact my first car was a 1970 model, in white, alloy wheels and front fog lights, that when you put them on the heater and radio stopped working, such were the deficiencies of the charging system. It was great, handled brill, looked cute and generally got me mobile. STU155J where are you now?

Anyway, time moves on, and with the demise of the Mini, replaced by the god awful Metro, the rest is simply history. The British motor industry capitulated and several moons later the Germans came in and bought the parent company, or what was left, namely Land Rover, possibly the only bit worth salvaging.

Of course, they plundered the technology, all the 4x4 stuff they now have (funny because BMW always said their cars had the perfect system and didn't need 4wd). They also plundered the brand name - the Mini!





Fast forward another few years and you hit the 'new' Mini. Now, in the basic, ordinary configuration it isn't that horrid; but BMW, as I have blogged in the past are experts in messing things up. I rest my case via the pictures below (a picture is worth more than a few thousand words here!)

What the hell are they doing? Clearly there is a nostalgia market, e.g. the new "Beetle' (a Golf with a crap body shape) and even the Fiat 500 which at least mimics its predecessor. But to make an SUV Mini is, put simply, sacrilege.