The designers screwed up many obvious things, not just these signals. Mini Mk 1 (2000) was a beautiful minimal design by Frank Stephenson. Things started going

The designers screwed up many obvious things, not just these signals. Mini Mk 1 (2000) was a beautiful minimal design by Frank Stephenson. Things started going downhill with Mk 2 (2006) and further models. He left, and I guess designers suffered from non-invented here syndrome. I own a Mk 1 and I've leased or driven all other models. Aside from being uglier, many subtle things in the dashboard were tweaked making it a lot less intuitive. It makes me angry every time I see how they ruined a great design. Engines, on the other hand, have improved very significantly with each generation.