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[ironbutter]

Quote: Originally Posted by Paul (original)

I still say that when you had variations such as the Moke, Pickup, Van, Wolseley Hornet, Riley Elf, Estate, Countryman, Cooper S, Clubman and so on of the original Mini, it's very hard to say any new variant, however wild or "out of keeping" it may be isn't a "true MINI" in some way.

They didn't bring all those variations to the States, but the ones I recall were all clearly based off the classic Mini's essential platform. I don't recall them borrowing an entirely different chassis from something else and changing the coachwork so it resembled Mini styling. Like I said I'm not familiar with all of those so I may be mistaken. That's what seems to be going on here.