The car market is not mini.
But what the manufacturer of small cars with a great fun factor, which belongs to BMW, has just published makes you sit up and take notice.
Sales of the electric Mini E doubled over the past year.
The car only has a range of 150 kilometers with its mini battery, but it drives around corners at right angles.
The customers are obviously so pleased that the electrician has become the most popular model in the Bavarian-British range.
The second winner is John Cooper Works, the gasoline-in-the-blood-fueled Attack department.
She reports record sales, although anyone with half the horsepower could get from A to B.
The cabriolet, a species that had been declared dead and humorlessly buried by Volkswagen or the once open-hearted French brand Peugeot, has found more buyers again at Mini.
Contrary to expectations, most of them are not in the home market of Great Britain or in the vastness of the United States, but in Germany, although the weather here is usually cloudier than in Italy, Spain or France.
The customers vote with the gas feet: If so, then yes, no matter which drive is under the hood.
From because of the golden mean, contour and irrelevance are obviously not recipes for success.
This suggests that, despite the triumph of smartphones on wish lists, buying a car has not become a matter of indifference, as Kassandras never tires of repeating.
Across all brands, Porsche, Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Tesla were among the stars in 2021.
If you build cars with and for your heart, you don't have to worry about the future.