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Originally Posted by LonghornTX
MINI is very close to being a BMW.
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Close, but no cigar - it may have been designed by some of the same people but it's still not a BMW. It's clear BMW doesn't want it thought of as one either, or they would publicly call it the "BMW MINI" and would not have set up separate dealerships for it.
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Also, the Z8 is indeed a retro design and just about everyone would agree on that. The Z8 is based on the Z07 concept car which was designed to replicate, in a retro fashion, the popular (and very beautiful) 507 of the late 50s.
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BMW may have
tried to do retro with the Z28, but they didn't
do retro - they failed miserably, as your linked photo makes clear. In stark contrast to the Mini/MINI, there is virtually no family resemblance between the 507 and the Z28 (which by the way was a
very limited production car that never even appeared with right-hand drive - a tiny footnote in BMW history). Even the reincarnated Thunderbird looked much closer to its original embodiment, not to mention the Beetle.