Mini r53 help required: no idea where to post this!

I'd post it on pistonheads

Only one I've seen is the rat styled one which may not be what you are after

Painted A pillars could look ok as above, though the 'floating roof' is part of the look of the car and body coloured pillars all round would look a bit odd.

IMO, obviously.

I remember being at a show somewhere and seeing a classic mini with the blacked out pillars to emulate the new mini look.

I was horrified, almost angry even.

I've always loved the classic mini, since childhood. But I'm slowly coming round to the new ones (only taken twenty one years!)

They wrap whole cars, I'm sure the pillars would be possible?

Yes, you could have vinyl wrap applied on the glass to replicate b and c pillars. Bought my son an r50 mini one 7 limited edition and the wife has an r52 Cooper a convertible. They are good little cars, feel solid and the convertible doesn’t really suffer scuttle shake as much as I expected, but I digress.

As said, you could replicate having pillars but I think it may look odd without something to ‘finish’ the edges if you know what I mean?

Actually I'd say the first gen mini is small in comparison to it's contemporaries and certainly compared to modern cars, this is coming from a serial classic mini owner who used to hate them with a passion because it wasn't a real mini!

Is it small compared to a classic mini? No.....but not much is.

I also have an 2002 R53 Cooper S and it's a brilliant little car, little supercharged engine that sounds amazing, handles brilliantly, looks that have aged very well in my opinion and it has a dedicated following, I definatley think of it as a modern classic, it certainly leaks oil like a classic car anyway!

The question is, is it too new to be on here? is it retro? opinions will vary of course and this is a topic that crops up from time to time on here with arguments for both sides. Obviously I like them and find them interesting but then again there are other platforms out there for these cars. One day maybe, seeing as petrol cars are going the way of the dodo.....

I know what you mean, the wheelbase on my wife’s Cooper s is only around an inch and a half shorter than our Impreza wrx, although the mini is wheel at each corner and feels much shorter than the Subaru.