2007 MINI Length Finally Revealed

What are these “other dimensions”? And if “not all are bigger” did any measurements get smaller?

Gabe, aside from the “extra 2 inches” I don’t see any other “official” measuraments.

May be you are jumping the gun a little too fast?

and those 2 little inches act, to me, like a transistor tigger that moves the side view from the ‘beatutiful lines’ category to the porker category.

the front, instead of having that great brutally short overhang and huuging the tires, now looks like every other hatch out there.

c’mon, what’s with that upright rear lower hatch and the bulge to the window? it looks exactly like a roll of fat. the current car has a smoooth elegant line that follows the window down. some marketing weeniw saying ‘we have 20 more cubic inches of parcel space. the bozos don’t care about good lines.’

****and the sad part is, they’re probably right. if i get one of these, i’ll modify the front back to a short overhang and make a carbon rear hatch that matches the current deisgn.

You know, there’s one good thing coming out of all of this – if those two inches are just to meet pedestrian standards, there’s a very good chance that the engine bay will remain basically the same – perhaps it may be possible to just ‘drop’ in the turbo engine into a R53 in the future?

Oooh, the possibilities……………

Wow such sparky debate!

Seems less than it looked to me, front overhang wise, but I’m taking a WAS attitude.

Gotta agree with the comments about the size of the car.I know Gabe’s tall, 6′ nosebleed somthing, and I have a friend who drives my car who is 6’4″ with no complaints. seems there are other cars you could buy. I personally know of families in Europe that raised a family of 4 and drove a Mini as their only car.

whoops, forgot to close something…

wow – from that profile shot above, the new MINI looks frighteningly similar to my old ’83 Honda Civic – just make the roof a tad less flat, and slope a little bit on the front and back, and it’s a dead-ringer from the side. yikes.

sample photo: honda civic

I’m probably being my normal obtuse self, but I don’t see much similarity between the new MINI and the ’83 Civic.

Gabe, no problem at all. I just was expecting to see more detailed measuraments, that is all.

I took my wife and a couple of friends to dinner this past weekend in my 05 MCS. I am over 6 feet tall, and we all fit in the car with no complaints. In fact, the only comment from the back seat was “It feels like we’re in a formula one car!” as I went through the gears. Music to my ears.

2 inches ruins the car? Porky? People. The car is still a tiny little car, and maybe we should wait until we actually see it in the flesh to make these huge pronouncements.

If an extra two inches is going to make a huge diffrence in your life, well, um, that’s just plain sad.

What I really like to see in a New MINI Mk II is a larger fueltank! 50 liters aren’t enough at all. I hope they put in a 60 liter tank for the MCS…