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.

Ah, the joys of being a passenger with six others in a 2CV! Cornering was fun as he wheels ground into the wheel arch like something from a gladiator film!

If it is truly retro - ie ships without a sim card, tracking and crap tech then they would get my money. I don't hold out much hope though.

Interestingly, the name 2cv means 2 Cheval Fiscal, or 2 fiscal horses. Which was a tax measurement for cars based on a formula of the shape and performance of the engine.

The car itself had 9 horsepower.

Damn I saw Stelantis and 2CV, and I was like isn’t 2CV Citroen?

I missed the part that Stelantis bought everything that is not VW.

There's already a 2CV electric conversion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lE7rcN4EnE

And only ten years after it was obvious to do. Looking at you fiat as well

Aw, it's smiling! :3

(Before anyone says anything, the face that the consumer-friendly vehicle has an endearing "face" is salient.)

Missed opportunity to call it Citroën Deux but stylized dEVx - being an EV (read it as the french word `deux` aka 2)

I rather like this. Apart from the interior. Hopefully a production design will have some of the idealisms from the designer removed and replaced with more practical choices. It is however a near ideal cheaper end car for most European countries.