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Aznom (nom nom) has introduced their Chateau Mini, a car which acts to combine the twin yuppie delights of the Mini Clubman and French Chateau wine. How do you combine the two? By using ooh-la-la materials on the inside and apparently lots of different shades of brown, oh, and install a stocked "wine cellar" inside the Mini. While we're normally all about tossing back a couple bottles glasses of vino, having fine wine close at hand at all times, in a car which sports enough glass to qualify as a greenhouse just smacks of a bad idea. Full bodied press release with a full nose and long legs below the fold.
MINZA, Italy - Aznom srl is proud to present you our last realization in the Car Pleasure field: the "Chateau Minì" based on the BMW Mini Clubman presented as a world premiérè at the Top Marques Monaco in Montecarlo.[Source: Aznom asl]For the realization of this "Chateau Minì" we take the inspiration from the French Chateau, well known in the world for the excellence production of wines and for the elegance of the interior. In order to recreate the atmosphere inside the Chateau Minì we used specified materials such as aged grain leather, gaucho sand leather, Alcantara® and wood that gives a warmy and vintage interior that covers passengers in an elegant trip into emotions and traditions.
The peculiarity of this car is a wine cellar made with the same leather and wood of the interior hided in the double-bottom's car trunk: The Italian leader in wine distribution, Gruppo Meregalli, the Italian leader in wine distribution, has made a selection of some of the best Chateaux: Chateau Lafite, Chateau Haut-Brion, Chateau L'Evangile, Chateau Pavie, Chateau D'Yquem, Chateau Rieussec.
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That interior couldn't look worse if they'd slathered it with woodgrain Contact paper.
The thumbnail had me excited, but making the jump revealed that it isn't a woody wagon Mini. Imagine my disappointment.
@DannyBN: Agreed. Awful. Awful interior.
That's a lot of dead cow skin...
Seeing this Mini, I can't help but think of this: [jalopnik.com]
For a mobile wine cellar, I'd be tempted to suggest a Saab 9-3 Sportcombi Panel wagon, but it'd probably go Sideways.
If they are going to ruin a Mini they could at least have the decency to ruin one with an automatic.
This seems like an awful knockoff of this: [www.castagnamilano.com]
I look at that color combo, albeit for not too long,
and all I can think of is this...
but why no picture of the wine cellar itself? it's the only arguably worthwhile mod...
Polar!!! Go to your room.
@smalleyxb122: Disappointment is the usual reaction when the expected woody doesn't occur.
They forgot to donk it with some 22s.
@JUST POLAЯ: I hope you got that piture from Google images,or are you hungover & have some time on your hands today.
The only thing I like about this car IS the paint job. I always loved the late 70's early 80's Browns, Tans, and Golds, and this looks like it has all of the various shades of brown on one car.
I used to own a Mustang with Zgold over Dark Brown Two Tone, just like this Mini. Great to see it!
Holly frick! Who ever thought this up need to be beaten with a baguette and bludgeoned with a wheel of stinky cheese.
A wine cellar is probably the most ridiculous option I've ever heard of.. and I'm jealous I never thought of it first! Although, I'd swap it out for a kegerator instead...
@layabout:
Would you believe...
[www.shomer-tec.com]
Return of 2-tone brown paint... [CHECK]
^Today's sign of the Malaise-coplyps
@DannyBN: Haha,sick & funny. Must now wipe coffee from my screen.
@layabout: More brown stains?
But with the MINI, won't the skid marks be in the front?
For some reason this thing makes me think of Morris Day's awful ride with its little carousel hood ornament. I'll find video if I can...
@DannyBN: Yes,sticky ones
Yeah, okay...here we go.
Man, I don't know where the hell this is coming from, but that Mini gets this going in my head. Big mea culpas for everybody thus infected.
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Not the weirdest Mini I've seen, but certainly the ugliest.
@abgwin: The wine cellar is less rediculous than the third side door and side opening rear doors.
If this is going to be a proper shooting brake it needs a wine cellar, a humidor, rifle and shotgun storage, and a probably a bar.
Ah yes.. the wine cellar, a must have when tailgating "Les Miserables"
The following dialogue narrated by Pepe Le Pew
Francoise: Jean Claude, would you care for some more Poutine?
Jean Claude: Non non, my belly, she is stuffed.. but I will have some more wine!
Francoise: ZUT ALORS JEAN CLAUDE, that is your 3rd glass..
Ahhh, I could poke fun at the French all day..
The Italian leader in wine distribution, Gruppo Meregalli, the Italian leader in wine distribution
I wonder what Gruppo Meregalli's position is in relation to Italian wine distribution?
no matter what you do that car it is still ugly ass sin.
@drunkcanuck: Third glass? Naah, they would be shocked after the third bottle.
Total tangent, but related: I read The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway recently. They use the word "tight" to mean "drunk." Two characters are having a meal. After two martinis each and splitting three bottles of wine, one wants to get more wine. The other says, "Don't be tight, dear!" The first responds with "How could I possibly be tight on wine?"
That book made me feel good. I am not an alcoholic, clearly. I would have stopped after the second bottle of wine.
...mummmmmm turdalicious.
@dculberson:
Huh.. I've never heard the word "tight" used in that reference before. Now words such as Bloto, tanked, pissed, sh*t faced, hammered, slammed, wrecked, wrote off, skunked.. sure.
I don't think I'll be changing my name to "tightcanuck" anytime soon.
I HAVE to get a bottle of Doo Drops.
This make me want to build a PBR edition G8 El Catalina.
Jalopnik - is proud to present you the final fulfillment in the Car Orgasm field: the "PBR G8 El Catalina" based on Holden Ute presented as world asskickery at the Dukes of Hazzard Fun Day at Bogart, GA...
Finally, a Mini you can get Sideways.
If James May makes a another series of 'Big Wine Adventures' with Oz Clarke, I hope they drive around in this:
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I would have barfed all over the interior it somebody hadn't beaten me to it.
Hi! I'm an asshole. Here's my car.
@dculberson: 1930s to 1960s "tight" mean drunk or at least giddy. Old Bette Midler remake song "I heard little children were supposed to sleep tight; that's why I drank a fifth of Vodka one night."
@Novaload:
Come on! really?
Now were quoting Bette Midler songs!?
You're killing me. ;^)
@boosted-lego-wagon:
Well done!
OK. My son's 13. He's much more into video games, cars and soccer at this point in his life than he is girls. This implies that he doesn't give a crap about his appearance yet, and wouldn't shower for weeks if we didn't force him to.
Even he has better taste than to dress like this.
I love how the "wine cellar" is "hided in the double-bottom's car trunk".
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