Meh. MINI is doing it to themselves. It shouldn't take three years to retool Cowley; BMW quickly added the Countryman U25 line to the Leipzig UKL2 plant where the X1/2 are made. They could've built a wheels-up Cooper Electric on the UKL2 platform if they wanted, instead of milking the F56 chassis for another decade underpinning the ICE Cooper F66. Instead they gambled on being able to boost their margins by having Great Wall produce a cheaper, Cooper-lookalike at Chinese cost savings while still asking BMW-premium retail prices here.
Meanwhile, Volvo had been banking on the tiny EX30 taking North America by storm based on a similar gamble, but with the heightened tariffs they quickly moved production from the Geely plant in Chengdu to a new line at their Ghent, Belgium plant. So instead of four years from its ROW release, they've been able to get Chinese-assembled EX30s to Canada more or less on schedule (after resolving software hiccups), with EU-built examples coming to the US in early 2025, just six months behind the Canadian release and about a year and a half after ROW.