Mini Considering The Addition Of A Premium Sedan To The Lineup

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Mini is loosing its way on the way to becoming mainstream. Be bold, be mini, be fun or be gone!

@PUGPROUD This is primarily due to BMW's idiocy of make Mini a stand-alone brand in bespoke dealers. They should just have added Mini to every BMW dealer and the whole full-line brand idiocy would be gone.

I think more people are buying the "larger" Mini models. I see a lot more Countryman & Clubman. I'm sure the newest 4-dr Hardtop is soon outpace the initial 2-dr version. Healthy brand can survive on a few models. Variety in the lineup is the only way to keep potential customers interested.

MINI is losing its way. The appeal of the MINI, reborn under BMW, was a nostalgic, "affordable", fun car with loads of character. They're morphing it into something else, whose styling kinda sorta reminds you of a Mini.

Crossovers are booming and sedans are dying, so of course it makes sense for Mini to do a sedan.

I'd love to see Mini morph the look of the Cooper and a Meyers Manx to create a beach buggy crossover thing niche vehicle.

I think the retro "Mini" concept is going to slowly die on the vine over the next 5 years. When your whole brand is based on replicating one car that was sold in the 1960's/1970's, nostalgia can only carry you so far.

The original Mini in 2003 was really cool and every iteration has become much less so. The whole lineup is just kind of silly on a certain level at this point. I'm sure that most Mini drivers eventually just end up in a BMW X1 or X3, so what's the point?

Yet Porsche styles its entire line like a caricature of a 1963 911.