Do so agree with that DBtruth and Wigwam. With beauty, and panache, being in the eye of the beholder, I do realise that we’ll never all agree but I think that this Mini design from 2002:
is just so much a better, pleasing design that this, from this year:
Now, I know they are slightly different models, but, for me, the Art Deco/Bauhaus simplicity of the former is so much better than the bumpy, twiddly bits on the latter. Trying far too hard to be macho and racy – does not need to. And those wheels! What is going on with wheel design at the moment?