2013 Mini Cooper S Paceman ALL4 - Car and Driver
It’s increasingly clear that the product planners at Mini don’t feel constrained by the brand’s name, an attitude that might have been inspired by Humpty Dumpty’s draconian take on definitions. The Paceman is the latest proof of the elasticity of the word Mini. Using the elongated architecture that supports the five-door Countryman, the three-door Paceman is about the same size as a Hyundai Veloster —not exactly elephantine, but far from petite. Compared with the base Mini hardtop , still the brand’s bestseller, the Paceman is 15. 6 inches longer, 4. 0 inches wider, and 4. 5 inches taller. And at 3331 pounds, it’s as much as 800 pounds heavier. The engines available in the Paceman are the same three variations of the 1. 6-liter four employed across Mini’s entire product line—one naturally aspirated, two turbocharged. Propelled by the milder of Mini’s two 1. 6-liter turbos (181 horsepower, 177 lb-ft), our Cooper S Paceman ALL4 (as in four-wheel drive) required 7. 3 seconds to reach 60 mph, covered the quarter-mile in 15. 7 seconds at 89 mph, and consumed 21... Contrast those results with the numbers we wrung from a Cooper S hardtop : 0 to 60 in 6. 2, the quarter-mile in 15. 0 at 95, and 0 to 100 in 16. 7. And the 1. 6 turbo in that Cooper S was rated for 172 horsepower. Source: www.caranddriver.com
