MINI confirms Clubman name
BMW/MINI has finally announced that it’s upcoming stationwagon long wheel base MINI model will be called the Clubman. There was previously a stationwagon old school Mini called the Mini Traveller, however the chances of using that name was pretty unlikely as there were legal issues surrounding that name – someone else has the rights to use it. Therefore the MINI Traveller concept couldn’t go into production as the MINI Traveller.
Instead, it was said that the Clubman name would be used, from another old school Mini model. However, the Clubman name also had some legal problems with it, as Honda owns the name Clubman in Japan, but it looks like with this official announcement all those issues have been ironed out. We can now look forward to the new shooting-brake styled station wagon from MINI.
Look after the jump for a cheeky teaser video of the MINI Clubman.
Video: MINI Clubman Teaser
March 9, 2007 @ 4:21 am
The design is quite stick to the old school taste with modern touch
March 9, 2007 @ 4:33 am
lol.. can’t help but laugh at the amatuerish style in which the teaser is filmed.. quite frankily, its kinda awkward looking mini.. doesn’t look proportional…
March 9, 2007 @ 8:16 am
Yea.. this mini clubman has lost the cuteness of its mini sibling. Does it have better rear passenger space than the original mini?
March 9, 2007 @ 10:28 am
yucks, I never did like mini cooper, it looks more like a perodua kelisa. It’s not cheap too. I definitely will not want to pay a lot of money for this car.
March 9, 2007 @ 10:43 am
Hei! Is perodua or daihatsu copy the style of mini. See it mira gino in japan. Is almost the same with the old mini cooper. But i like more to the original mini cooper s, Cheers!
March 9, 2007 @ 11:23 am
mini not so expensive la, the impoters declared it at RM16K…but when they want to sell to you RM185k huhuhuhuh
and paul any updates on latest news that Wald are getting 3000 APs (that is a lot), I thought no more imported tune up cars…after the New Automotive Policy (NAP).
anybody can update on this?
March 9, 2007 @ 2:47 pm
well…good design…..at one glance it looks like a fish !! dont yall agree ?
March 9, 2007 @ 3:01 pm
hi.. do you think this teaser got anything to do with http://www.whatsinthehercules.com? i don’t know but it does have all the similarities.. maybe i am wrong.. but maybe bmw (malaysia) has just head-hunted the marketing dudes of proton…
Paul, any specs on this clubman?
if it is 1.6 and everything… maybe it is the whats in the hercules.com teaser..
March 9, 2007 @ 3:45 pm
Ugly name and ugly design, Cooper is still the best……
March 9, 2007 @ 9:50 pm
anyone interested…what…nobody…2nd call
March 10, 2007 @ 12:12 am
useless car. Why would you want to station wagon something so small in the first place. Don’t think there are lots of things you can put into it now.