Did you ever sit in an original MINI? Your ass is so low that you think any bump will bring a bloody visit to the proctologist with it. Literally and figuraitvely.

Or an original Fiat 500? Or a Citroen 2CV?

The charm of them was not least that these cars were small. Very small by today's standards.

A MINI is about (LxW) 3m x 1.4m. A contemporary "MINI" is almost 3.8m x 2m.

Or worse, the MINI Countryman the MINI that wants to be a SUV and a MINI and fails on both accounts.

I fear the new 2CV will just be another weird supersized version of a classic.

All these cars feels like when Hollywood does the n-th relaunch of Spiderman or Batman or whatever because ... capitalism.

Play it safe, don't risk innovating with a new car that could be original and cute and loved by a new generation for what it is, not what it tries to replicate. Because the success of that depends on many factors, only one of which is originality. Whereas the classic has already prooven itself in all of them.

That said, I think the new Fiat 500 is actually not that bad. It's still a car that feels like a proper relaunch of the original ... in some way.