MINI now makes the most annoying car in the world.

[Philly]

If you ever wanted a car that talks with itself while you drive, the MINI Camden is it. If you're one of the people who can't stand even a GPS talking to you, run far, far away.

Autoblog link.

 

[Moglet]

I would crash it. Immediately.

 

[Jondot]

...did one of them just quote a Tom Petty song?

 

[Northstar]

At least now if I see somebody on the side of the road beating the crap out of a MINI I will know why and promptly stop my car and join them.

 

[Stevisiov]

It's awful cheesy and unnecessarily happy. I could be worse though, imagine the status report on a Lancia.

 

[Keef]

The system's happiness would kill my own and make for a terrible day.

 

[daan]

It could be worse though, imagine the status report on a Lancia.

💡

And we have ignition...

Engine start?

No, we're on fire. Again

 

[Joey D]

You know what the best part about the feature is? It's easily turned off. It is pretty bad though, I played around with it at the dealer. And you can only get it on the Cadmen, so there's very few cars out there that have it. I don't think it's supposed to be coming to any other models.

I'm amazed this is just turning up on the net too.

 

[a6m5]

It's awful cheesy and unnecessarily happy. I could be worse though, imagine the status report on a Lancia.

"Get out of the car now!" "Save yourselves!"

 

[McLaren]

They should have had Jeremy Clarkson for the full throttle inputs.

"This is full throttle! In a MINI! Ahhh!"

 

[Philly]

The system's happiness would kill my own and make for a terrible day.

But that makes for the single functional use for the thing I can think of: reducing the time spent getting to work every day. I'd drive a lot faster if I was mad at the car...

 

[buickgnx88]

But that makes for the single functional use for the thing I can think of: reducing the time spent getting to work every day. I'd drive a lot faster if I was mad at the car...

"Slow down silly, what's the hurry?"

 

[CDailey]

Reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy movie from a few years ago.

 

[EA11R]

^I couldn't place it, but that's exactly it!

But yeah, the voices are too happy. And since when is 'MINI' a verb?

I'd have much more varied voices. Invader Zim, for one. And Doc Brown. The full cast of Kill Bill... I could go on for hours.

 

[Worst_Driver]

Man this car is so annoying I wish I could make it explode with C4 just to make the annoying voice stop.
But I wonder what it would say if the engine blows up.

 

[YSSMAN]

While entirely annoying, it would be interesting when showing off to your friends. Especially when you have to justify the $5000 Camden package price.



...But...

If I could get something like this to work together with Ford's Sync, complete with a boatload of Star Trek sourced audio, that would be totally awesome.

 

[Frizbe]

Thats fake right? Please dear God tell me the voices are just dubbed over!

 

[Joey D]

Thats fake right? Please dear God tell me the voices are just dubbed over!

Nope, it's real. Experienced it first hand.

 

[Omnis]

You know what the best part about the feature is? It's easily turned off. It is pretty bad though, I played around with it at the dealer. And you can only get it on the Cadmen, so there's very few cars out there that have it. I don't think it's supposed to be coming to any other models.

I'm amazed this is just turning up on the net too.

If I had one of those, I bet it wouldn't shut up about having only 1 person per seat.

Can you imagine if you had one? "Hey, the passenger is contorting herself in weird positions! ... Let's MINI!!"

 

[Alex.]

KILL IT WITH FIRE

or water, or anything. JUST KILL IT GODDAMN.

 

[Omnis]

Also, this is something I would expect from VW, not Mini.

 

[Joey D]

Can you imagine if you had one? "Hey, the passenger is contorting herself in weird positions! ... Let's MINI!!"

Holy hell dude, that was one of the funniest things I've heard all night. Only premo's will get it too, .

 

[Omnis]

My life would be complete if this car said "Inyuk-chuk!" and turned into a clubman.

 

[Azuremen]

At a loss of words.

 

[Kylehnat]

If you hate your carpool mates, this is the car to have .

 

[Joey D]

If you hate your carpool mates, this is the car to have .

Ya because being cramped in the back seats isn't bad enough .

 

[-Fred-]

My car talks to me all the time... with gauges, feedback and noises.

 

[Omnis]

My car pisses on my foot when it rains.

 

[Rykon Zero]

I make my car a personality and I talk to it when I'm cleaning it. People think I'm crazy. I'd be obliged to agree.

 

[Neal]

This is a joke right? Was it meant to be announced on 1st April! This is horrible, so very very horrible