It might make it look like a "minicab" in your opinion, but when it is your only vehicle, and mine is just that, i need to try and protect the original covers.
It has also been used as a furniture removal vehicle, both here and in France, garden waste removal vehicle, transporting building materials. Apart from shopping, transporting grand children, general day to day travel, and when i was working it was used as a business vehicle and for overnight stops. So yes if you want to call it a minicab i don't mind. At least it is used every day, now done 110,000 miles and looking forward to the next 110,000 miles