It must be award season, and MINI is cleaning up. According to Carpages, which has listed quite a few of them.
>The January blues have been well and truly beaten by MINI in 2008 with new year awards from Top Gear, What Car?, BusinessCar and Parker’s Car Guides. With successes in these publications that cover retail and fleet, new and used car sales, the champagne is off the ice and the detox will have to wait!
Business Car, Top Gear Magazine, What Car and others have all bestowed some love on our favorite little car.
[ Bumper MINI Awards ] Carpages.co.uk
Seems no matter how you cut it, MINI remains a fairly unique package that combines fun, practicality, economy, good looks and comfort together with some darn good driving dynamics. Few cars hit all these point so well, and that’s why I think it is popular. One can hype a car endlessly, but it had better deliver to succeed, and MINI does. It’s a delicate balance, and if it weren’t for the very vivid driving dynamics of the iconic classic Mini to go on, the whole thing would have happened differently and we’d have our pick of small cars…but no MINI.