[Paul]

I'll put my hands up and say it's not perfect, there's a lot of things you could and many people will no doubt comment negatively on, I know I have in the past. But IF you take the positives, there's a lot of them to be found. Once I started looking at it purely as a MINI, but a bit bigger and a little more practical, it was really, really good fun.

And it's also great to have a new member of the MINI family, and I can't deny that fact alone makes me warm to it, as it's nice to have diversity.

The "Club Door Debate" was done to death at the launch, and it was pretty tiring. It's not going to change, and it's one of things I think you'll not convince people off either way. I personally think it's not the best solution, it should be on both sides, or not at all in my view. BUT, once you step beyond that (if you can) and just take it at face value and play around with it, you can hopefully enjoy it for what it is, not what it isn't. (If that makes any sense at all).