Does anyone know what car this is on the image is? I'm pretty sure aoshima don't make a kit of it but I am not sure I just want to know what the car is?
So, some background information: I crashed my Veloster back in September, and drive a '13 Mini Cooper JCW now. That is why I was in a BMW-Mini dealership getting my oil changed earlier today. It's really impossible to overstate how much of an atrocity the new 4th gen Bini is. Absolute 2010s millennial-strivercore slop car. Would have been better to discontinue the brand entirely than build that hunk of trash. First of all, put DCTs next to turbochargers on the list of things that used to be sporty but are now just compliance trash, because the Bini Mk4 has one with absolutely zero means of manual control. The shifter is a little tab mixed in with (what's left of) the physical radio & HVAC controls. It does have a mode that makes it hold gears longer and shifter harder, which is marked L instead of S because apparently they didn't want this car to even be in the same set of encyclopedias as the concept of sportiness. No paddles. There is no manual gearbox available at all. And speaking of the radio & HVAC controls, there are only a few tiny physical controls. I assume most of it is crammed into the huge, round, glued-on touchscreen that sits where the central speedometer used to be. The little tachometer pod on top the steering column, with its built-in digital speedometer, is gone, so you must now have to look at the center screen for speed and RPM (if it's even shown) information - GG to BMW for managing to copy the single worst thing about Tesla's interiors. Some interior trim is upholstered in this weird mesh fabric that reminds me of the elastic outer pockets of a sports bag or backpack. Its textured motif has also infected some other interior surfaces and the design of the taillights. The S model's hood scoop is now fully gone; not even the gen 3's vestigial blocked-off slot remains. Styling is becoming a parody of rather than an homage to the original Mini. Countryman is a BMW X1 with different bodywork and looks more like a Nissan than a Mini at this point. It's so bad that even the salesman couldn't really defend it or disagree with my complaints. The worst part is, I've actually seen a few of them driving around recently. How is BMW supposed to see the error of their ways when people just keep buying them anyway?
I just looked it up, my god it's awful, honestly I'm not a fan of new Minis but i don't mind my friend's Mk3, but the new one is so bad
The first two were fine, third was alright but starting to get very "German", fourth shouldn't be allowed to call itself a Mini. I have a theory that the reason the first two worked so well, and "felt British" despite being made by a German company, is because MG/Rover already had a bunch of the groundwork done, and all BMW had to do was finish it up and sell it. Since then the Rover leftovers have been slowly going out of date due to regulations and (in this case potentially mistimed) market trends, leaving the Germans to figure it out for themselves, so they did the only thing they know how to: complexify and remove lightness.
