After watching Young Adult, LJY and I were joking about red hardtop Mini Coopers because Charlize Theron's character, Mavis, drives one. Was it intentional on the part of the filmmakers to have her character's high school car be a VW Cabriolet? That did seem to be the cute car of choice for daddy's little princess in high school.

I first saw an ad for the coupe around the same time as the movie; it might have been during the previews in fact.
What to make of the design?

Can't they design a small car with good gas mileage and a decent engine?

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