{"id":18925,"date":"2022-03-03T14:08:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T10:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autoscommunity.com\/?p=18925"},"modified":"2022-03-03T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T10:08:21","slug":"the-mini-coupe-featuring-design-inspiration-from-a-back-to-front-baseball-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autoscommunity.com\/2022\/03\/03\/the-mini-coupe-featuring-design-inspiration-from-a-back-to-front-baseball-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mini Coupe: Featuring Design Inspiration From a Back-To-Front Baseball Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you prefer a coupe to a hatchback, you are willing to sacrifice a little practicality in the name of zippy handling and sleek style. But the regular three-door Mini Hatch has long been known as a) very good to drive and b) very impractical. So a potential coup\u00e9 with the Mini name has to shine first and foremost in terms of looks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But that’s not what the 2011 Mini Coupe did. It was not just clumsier than its related hatchback, and it was clumsier than pretty much everything else on the road.<\/p>\n

At its launch, Mini’s head of design, Gert Hildebrand<\/a>, proudly boasted that the Coupe’<\/a>s quirky roof design was inspired by his teenage son wearing a baseball cap backwards. Shortly afterwards, Mini headquarters decided that the Fred Durst<\/a> style was not suitable for their style-conscious<\/a> Coupe and quietly dropped all references to youthful fashion trends, and this prevented anyone from making rude jokes about it.<\/p>\n

Whatever you call it, it was ugly. Even without the colour-blocked roof (hard recommend), the Coupe<\/a> in profile did not scream ‘sleek two-seater’ so much as ‘recently used as a bar stool by a large pachyderm’. Buyers decided they wanted impracticality and fine driving manners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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