Counterfactual – what if BMC had built the Mini 2 in the early 1970s?
"Few cars have lived as long and shone as brightly as the original Mini.
But what if, instead of endlessly refining Issigonis’s 1959 original, BMC – and later British Leyland – had taken the leap and built a true second-generation version?"
https://www.aronline...history/mini-2/
Counterfactual – Mini 3: the Metro-based successor that might have been...
"Few cars have proved as difficult to replace as the original Mini, and that is shown in the sheer number of failed attempts along the way.
British Leyland’s ADO88 project began with precisely that intention, only to grow into the larger Austin Metro. But what if BL had continued developing a smaller, Metro-related car as the Mini’s true successor?"
https://www.aronline.../austin-mini-3/
Looking at Philippe Bouton’s image renderings, which as others have said in the comments, looks like a cross between a Charade, a Fiesta and a Mk3 Micra....I'm just glad these 'AROnline imagined' Mini 2 & 3 never happened and that the original Mini lasted in production with few changes as long as it did! 
