The prototype Clubmans with sticky out rear ends to match.....I quite like the hatchback one, a hint of Marina Coupe?mikep wrote:Being of a certain age I don't think that a kit car takes the cake of the ugliest mini derivative but would like to nominate not exactly a kit car but what I would describe as a stick on car, its BL's own clubman.
From the perspective of the original they were horrible with a sticky out nose for gods sake why? Your eye took in the nose and started along the bodyit was OK but you then fell off the end at the stub boot, it was a mini in a party mask. When they did the elves and hornets at least they finished the job and gave them a boot. I suppose the design budget was £70 and they spent £69 8s 6d on the front just enough left for some hideous trim. Got used to them over time but don't knock kit cars when the manufacturers can f..k something up as badly.
http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/cars/mi ... kes-shape/
Silly ass: The aims of this experiment were to provide the Mini with improved styling and a larger boot. However, Haynes appears to have achieved little more than making the car look like the result of a nasty car crash between a Vauxhall Viva HB and a Hillman Imp. Thankfully this version remained behind closed doors (Picture: Mini, by Rob Golding).
The Clubman was developed through BMC’s desire to expand the Mini concept, without spending too much money.
It started out as a hatchback proposal penned by Roy Haynes, and then developed into something rather less useful.
http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/cars/mi ... i-clubman/
