BMW Turbo 1972 | TheaterFire

Some reboots suck. The current Mini isn’t small. It looks borderline not even a “compact” car. The pudgy design aesthetic of it doesn’t help. The original mini was amazingly small. I guess it might not be mini’s fault if there’s some law about micro cars, I don’t know.

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zilog88@reddit

Same is with Smart. Those new Smarts are not a smart choice anymore, as they seem to be bigger than new fiat 500s.

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Bland-fantasie@reddit

I drove a rideshare Smart and there was a 1.5 second delay between gear shifts, with an automatic transmission. When you’re accelerating from a red light with cars behind you, that’s not good.

Smart and Fiat have bad reps. VW’s I’ve anecdotally seen perform terribly my whole life. I saw two Vanagon fires where the fire was a white flame. Also I think Jeep is overpriced and develop inconvenient long term problems, but they do look great.

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Yukon-Jon@reddit

Jeep was amazing '88-'03

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KamakaziDemiGod@reddit

It absolutely was BMW who made the Mini bigger, and it is BMW who have been slowly making it bigger and bigger over the years

The original concepts for it were developed by BMW and Rover/MG, with the intent of it being sold under the Rover group, just as the last of the classic minis were, and then BMW realised they could just take the mini brand and sell the rest of Rover/MG back to itself, to maximise profits for BMW, and then it grew in size because BMW wanted it to be as marketable as possible and didn't care about the cars heritage

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