Seat Mii in SILVER 2014 for £5,499

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A Mii. If you've ever played on a Nintendo Wii gaming console, then you'll know exactly what that is. An extension of you - the fun, young, effervescent bubbly kind of you you'd like to be. Exactly the right kind of name, you might think, for a car that aims to create these same feelings in the dull mundanity of our everyday short journeying, city shopping and school run-dominated lives. This name adorned the SEAT-branded version of what in the 21st century's second decade was arguably the cleverest tiny runabout on the planet, the Mii sharing almost everything with a Volkswagen version of this same design, badged as the up! Nothing wrong with that. Today, most sub-supermini city runabouts are built around brand-sharing principles, something that back in 2011 SEAT was well familiar with as its previous - and very successful - entrant in this segment, the Arosa, had been another Volkswagen clone. With this Mii, SEAT at last had a class-leading citycar: the brand waited long enough for o