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Chateau Mini Is Invitation To Snootiness

mariospants — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:52:45 EDT

I love how the "wine cellar" is "hided in the double-bottom's car trunk".

mariospants

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FЯeeMan is slowly cЯawling out of the new commenting system — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:42:24 EDT

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.

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crankcase — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:24:04 EDT

@boosted-lego-wagon:
Well done!

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drunkcanuck — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:44:17 EDT

@Novaload:

Come on! really?

Now were quoting Bette Midler songs!?

You're killing me. ;^)

drunkcanuck

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NovaloadMissesPolar — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:32:02 EDT

@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."

NovaloadMissesPolar

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Bumblebee — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:50:22 EDT

Hi! I'm an asshole. Here's my car.

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ratbark — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:44:34 EDT

I would have barfed all over the interior it somebody hadn't beaten me to it.

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selfhatingotaku — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:14:55 EDT

If James May makes a another series of 'Big Wine Adventures' with Oz Clarke, I hope they drive around in this:

selfhatingotaku

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boosted-lego-wagon — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:30:13 EDT

Finally, a Mini you can get Sideways.

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SpeedWagon - Needs COTD bailout. — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:44:13 EDT

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...

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SpeedWagon - Needs COTD bailout. — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:33:37 EDT

This make me want to build a PBR edition G8 El Catalina.

SpeedWagon - Needs COTD bailout.

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Nayrlladnar — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:31:07 EDT

I HAVE to get a bottle of Doo Drops.

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drunkcanuck — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:30:39 EDT

@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.

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SpeedWagon - Needs COTD bailout. — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:28:24 EDT

...mummmmmm turdalicious.

SpeedWagon - Needs COTD bailout.

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dculberson — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:08:45 EDT

@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.

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solsticedrifter27 — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:05:33 EDT

no matter what you do that car it is still ugly ass sin.

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tenbeers — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:39:11 EDT

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?

tenbeers

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drunkcanuck — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:38:46 EDT

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..

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no_slushbox — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:36:30 EDT

@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.

no_slushbox

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Hart88 — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:31:23 EDT

Not the weirdest Mini I've seen, but certainly the ugliest.

Hart88

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Elhigh — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:29:28 EDT

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.

Elhigh

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layabout — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:24:19 EDT

@DannyBN: Yes,sticky ones

layabout

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Elhigh — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:24:07 EDT

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...

Elhigh

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The Name's Ash78, Housewares — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:19:54 EDT

But with the MINI, won't the skid marks be in the front?

The Name's Ash78, Housewares

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DannyBN — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:16:38 EDT

@layabout: More brown stains?

DannyBN

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layabout — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:13:46 EDT

@DannyBN: Haha,sick & funny. Must now wipe coffee from my screen.

layabout

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Feds — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:06:47 EDT

Return of 2-tone brown paint... [CHECK]

^Today's sign of the Malaise-coplyps

Feds

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DannyBN — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:04:21 EDT

@layabout:

Would you believe...

[www.shomer-tec.com]

DannyBN

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drunkcanuck — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:02:58 EDT

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...

drunkcanuck

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UDMan — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:02:19 EDT

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!

UDMan

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layabout — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:00:39 EDT

@JUST POLAЯ: I hope you got that piture from Google images,or are you hungover & have some time on your hands today.

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smokeydog001 — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:57:55 EDT

They forgot to donk it with some 22s.

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DannyBN — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:54:05 EDT

@smalleyxb122: Disappointment is the usual reaction when the expected woody doesn't occur.

DannyBN

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dculberson — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:52:21 EDT

Polar!!! Go to your room.

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abgwin — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:51:36 EDT

but why no picture of the wine cellar itself? it's the only arguably worthwhile mod...

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POLAЯMISSESEVEЯYBODY — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:48:38 EDT

I look at that color combo, albeit for not too long,
and all I can think of is this...

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no_slushbox — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:40:05 EDT

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]

no_slushbox

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Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:38:29 EDT

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.

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WesR — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:36:12 EDT

That's a lot of dead cow skin...

WesR

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smalleyxb122 — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:31:23 EDT

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.

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DannyBN — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:28:20 EDT

That interior couldn't look worse if they'd slathered it with woodgrain Contact paper.

DannyBN