Yes. Quite apart from the fact that you can't see out, the internal door hinges, door mirrors and indicator repeaters reveal it to be a later model, and the wheels are from a different model.
How about this one. Can anyone see any problems with this picture?
Old and new Mini next to each other
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Tony Lockhart
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The rear/boot all looks wrong, too big/bulging.
Enfield boy
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Bentley, shirley?
Enfield boy
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Both for dealers and pimps!
Well, it's obviously a render, which is why the rear glass is out of line, but having looked at a few period photos the back did bulge a fair bit.
Yank
Bulbous Also Tapered
Or Bugatti?
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SteveG
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Phwoar.
My Mum's Estelle was that colour, with a black vinyl roof.s110r image - Bing
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Mine was plain white and pretty much looked like this. Can't recall if it was an Estelle or a Super Estelle.
Martyn Miles
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I’m happy with my Skoda whichever ladder it’s on...
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
Saw the new mini on a car transporter this am.
haters always going to hate...........That's the one. Don't let anyone tell you that life was better back then, because that car wasn't very good.
Mine was plain white and pretty much looked like this. Can't recall if it was an Estelle or a Super Estelle.
Rug Doc
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friend had one of those with a Mazda rotary in the back. Was a bit mad.
SteveG
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I was about 18 and paid £130 quid for it (which was all I could afford in those days anyway), so had no complaints! It was much better than the Mini I had before it anyway.
All the cars my mates had were equally shit as well - clapped out rusty Mini's, low end Escorts and Fiestas etc.
Rug Doc
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I love minis. We Have two!
I really don’t like what they’ve done with the back. It could have been anything…
Barrymagrec
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A friend had an earlier Estelle - he later found a revue in a magazine - "The new Skoda Estelle is crudely built and has poor handling, steering and uncertain brakes, having said that it does represent a significant improvement on earlier Skoda models"
Engels
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Having driven one a good deal, the first comment is undoubtedly true. However it did not have poor steering, as it had an unassisted rack and pinion arrangement. This was direct, free from play, and because the engine is at the back, light. The brakes were more than adequate for the car at hand, servo assisted disc front and drum rear were more than enough for a car weighing around 1 tonne and with a top speed of only 80 mph, and as good as other family cars of the time.
The handling though was bloody evil. Very sensitive to tyre pressures, and if you lifted off in a corner, God help you.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
I think they were the company that did a colleague of mine's Mini. Nice restomod (squeezed a lot out of the 998 engine) and the car was a hoot to drive.