Not to enamoured by the front end treatment, the grills a bit heavy on the eye for my liking, but as with all car manufacturers these days, they seem to what to install a marque identity, but the seats look amazing!
I think to look like a mini is a bad thing but in this case it's not bad. They've taken out the stuff that makes a mini look crap and left in the good stuff IMO. I can't explain it, just the way it loks to me!
The current Ypsilon has been out for a while and is based heavily on the previous model, which came out in I think 1996? Whatever, its way before the new minis time. That car looks awesome whereas the new mini looks a bit like BMW missed the boat styling wise. I cant really see the mini in it anyway, look at the Lancia site to see ordinary Ypsilons.