I like it, except for the fugly BMW nose!

Looks like great fun. Can I have a go?

Somewhere in the US is a Honda CR-X with a classic Mini engine, gearbox, brakes and wheels. Yes, it's completely real. The guy built it because he was sick of seeing Honda bits fitted to classic Minis, so he did the reverse. I can't find a link to it now though. :(

Not TART - SLAG!

I can buy one in Aus and I want to like it, because it's probably the last car that's bodily almost identical to something from the sixties. But everyone I know who has owned one either hated it after a while, or is too staunchly pro-British cars to admit it has any faults.

@Ash78, there are plenty of other countries with suburbia besides the US!

Yep, never mind that several towns and one city in Queensland are flooding for the second time in two years and four people are already dead. Let's just focus on the car shall we?

I had a Holden Gemini (Aussie cousin of a Chevette with a better engine!) that did this. You could also open the drivers door with a wooden ice-cream "paddle-pop" stick. Very handy when at the back. Just hide the keys under the carpet, lock the doors and walk away. Then find a paddle pop stick on the ground on the…

You are right. a) They don't sell Raptors here. b) That does not look like any landscape here. So it's probably a stupid Yank, not an Aussie!

Applies to British cars in general. I have a Moke. The primary purpose for the sump guard on a Moke is to catch the oil drips.

My wife drives our diesel Nissan Pathfinder with the light on all the time and it shits me.

One of my colleagues traded his shitty Kia Carnival for Great Wall. Two weeks after he got it, the airbag light came one and has gone on and off intermittently since. The dealers can't work out what's causing it.

USA.1 maybe?

So the President has to use a DC plate like everyone else?? Why not give his limo a special plate like this?

Where I live, a Donk is an engine. Pure and simple. Nothing to do with any spew-inducing modification trends.

Somehow it actually looks good. The ugly boxy styling suits a pickup better.

Head says Land Cruiser, but heart says Geländewagen. Range Rover? Only if you want bits to fall off and plummeting resale.

Agreed. Why does it need to be a Starbucks, not just a Coffee shop? Starbucks coffee sucks anyway.

That every classic Mini is a "Mini Cooper".

The original Mini was a bit of an exception though. Most FWD cars I've driven are all understeery. The bigger they get, the more so. The closest thing I've found to the handling and fun of the original Mini is the AW11. It's ironic that the AW11 is RWD. (I have three classic Minis and an AW11.)