2016 Mini Cooper S Clubman Is Coming to Haul Your Stuff - Car and Driver (blog)
What It Is: To say the last Mini Clubman was a compelling oddball would be an understatement. It was half hatchback, half station wagon, and almost entirely strange, with a five-door layout that included rear barn doors and a rear-hinged suicide door on one side only. We know that it will be bigger and more sensible—indeed, it’s set to be the biggest Mini yet in terms of overall dimensions. The Clubman will, in essence, be a station-wagon version of the four-door Cooper hatchback, with an extended cargo area. If it sticks to the published dimensions of the apparently production ready Clubman concept that bowed at the 2014 Geneva auto show, it will be some 10 inches longer than the last Clubman and half a foot up on the Countryman, which, until now, has... Selling station wagons is enough of a challenge here in the best of times, let alone a small one that carries the price premium that comes with a Mini badge. But in those parts of the world where tourers still reign—like Europe—this is a sensible move to broaden the appeal of the Mini hatchback. Mini insiders have hinted that we can also expect to see an all-wheel-drive version later on, which will. Source: www.caranddriver.com
