r/funny • u/PhoenixPhenomenonX • 14h ago

Where’s the PRNDL

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u/Error-451 14h ago

That round screen is the ugliest shit I've ever seen

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u/TortugaJack 13h ago edited 13h ago

It's an homage to the original 1959 Mini interior. All subsequent Mini versions including more modern ones have a round central dial.

I think it's awesome. You get a Mini because you like the original spirit and its quirks.

Edit: Also, the PRNDL is in the small oval shaped panel below the screen. She almost touched it referring to the AC controls.

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u/EduinBrutus 11h ago

You get a Mini because you like the original spirit and its quirks

Haiving an automatic transmission is certainly not in the original spirit.

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u/_Middlefinger_ 10h ago

The original Mini could be had in automatic form, but its was even more incredibly slow.

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u/mccalli 8h ago

Mini 850cc Automatic, 1965. The 'spirit of the Mini' was to give a practical, affordable family car, with Issigonis passionately hating the Messerschmitt bubble cars and wanting to get them off the roads. You're likely thinking of the Cooper version, which Issiginis was originally against making - he didn't want a sports version of the Mini to start with.

Issigonis also wanted to simplify - cars at the time had controls and dials coming out of their ears, he thought that was unnecessary and reduced it to a single dial. He was basically right - I had a 70s Mini with the single dial, and an 80s Mini with the behind-the-dash dials...I preferred the 70s one.

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u/TortugaJack 9h ago

It's an EV, there's no transmission

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u/gary1405 30m ago

Not to be that guy but there absolutely is a transmission - after all, it has to "transmit" power from the motor(s) to the wheels somehow. EVs can also definitely have more than one gear. Take a look at Formula E - those are an awesome example of multiple-speed EV transmission. Of course, this is unnecessary for (most) road EVs.

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u/Unfair_Potential_295 8h ago

Can anyone under 40 even drive stick these days ?

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u/EduinBrutus 6h ago

Can anyone under 40 even drive stick these days ?

Everyone who isnt american?