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WORLD'S LARGEST MINI; Or is that an oxymoron?(News)

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| October 08, 2007 | Vaughn, Mark | COPYRIGHT 2007 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: MARK VAUGHN

Oh, as if nobody saw this coming. You'd have to have been living in a barrel the last two years not to know pretty much everything about the new Mini Clubman already.

There were four concepts of the Clubman in total before this production version even debuted. There was one in Frankfurt in 2005, an unadorned design concept without any theme or trim. You saw it at Tokyo in 2005 as that godawful celebration of green-and-white tackiness with a traveling picnic tea set on the roof as the Mini Concept Tokyo, a car that made the Viceroy Hotels look downright livable. It was on the stand at Detroit in 2006 as the Mini Traveller concept, with ...

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