Car Review: 2015 Mini Cooper S Countryman All4 - Driving
the fact there are 89 vehicles sold in Canada classified as sport-utes — according to the auto sales tracking website Good Car Bad Car at least — or the fact the Mini Cooper Countryman is considered one of them. Funnily enough, when the Countryman first arrived in the spring of 2011, it was quickly pegged the Maxi Mini, it being the first model in the Mini range to exceed four metres in length (4. 11 m to be exact). It was also the first Mini with four doors, all-wheel drive and a wide-opening rear liftgate, all ostensibly adding an air of practicality to the cute-as-a-bug, fun-to-drive Mini squad. so far this year the Countryman is the most popular model Mini Canada sells. Gone from the Countryman lineup is the base Cooper model, the one with the normally aspirated 1. 6-litre four-cylinder engine. All4 is standard for both the (now-base model) Cooper S and high-performance John Cooper Works. That means a 1. 6L turbocharged four-cylinder engine powering the two versions — 181 horsepower for the Cooper S versus 208 for the JCW — mated to a six-speed manual or optional six-speed manumatic. a tragedy, in my opinion, for one of the joys of any Mini, no matter the model, is the intimacy and. Source: driving.ca
