The new Mini car is mega-sized - CNNMoney
Mini, the British car brand famous for selling cute little cars with old-fashioned looks, is revealing its latest car, which is not quite mini. At nearly a foot longer than the four-door Mini Cooper, the new Clubman will be Mini's largest car and a new flagship model for the brand. In shape, it's similar to the Mini Cooper Clubman, the brand had offered until recently. This bigger car, however, isn't based on the tiny Mini Cooper like the last generation Clubman was. Today's Minis are already super-sized compared to the toy-sized original Minis produced for decades before BMW bought brand in 1994. Since BMW's takeover, Mini has even gone so far as to produce something that could be called a crossover SUV --... Of course, huge for a Mini is still pretty small when compared to the universe of cars. Minis don't have to be the smallest cars on the road, said David Duncan, Mini's vice president of the Americas. The new Clubman also marks Mini's entry into a more prestigious "premium" car market. Sharing some of its engineering with the BMW 1-series, the new Mini Clubman will be nicer, as well as bigger, than other Mini models, said Duncan. Source: money.cnn.com
