**The MINI Countryman: A Review**

The MINI Countryman shares quite a lot of its parts with a BMW X1, although it's lower and as a result, it does go round corners better than the X1. In fact, this thing handles pretty sweetly, it isn't all about much in the corners and it's got sufficient grip as well. It's clear that what you expect from a MINI is fun, and the Countryman delivers on that front.

One of the standout features of the steering on the MINI Countryman is its sharpness. The car has something called progressive steering, which means that the more you turn the wheel, the more the front wheels turn. This allows for easier maneuverability in tight spaces, making it a great city car. To illustrate this point, let's take a look at how it works. If we imagine turning the wheel by 1/4 of a full circle, the wheels will turn by about 1/4 of a full circle. But if we continue to turn the wheel by another 1/4 of a full circle, the wheels will turn even more, resulting in a much tighter turn. This means that you can go from lock-to-lock in very few turns, making it easy to navigate tight spaces.

Of course, the progressive steering system also makes for more aggressive driving, which may not be ideal for everyone. But if you're looking for a fun and engaging driving experience, the MINI Countryman is definitely worth considering. On the other hand, some people may find that the suspension is a bit firm, which can make it uncomfortable for those who prefer a softer ride.

One of the engine options available on the MINI Countryman is the 1.5-liter petrol engine, which provides decent punch and good fuel economy. However, if you do lots of driving in heavy traffic or towing, you may want to consider the Cooper D model, which comes with a diesel engine. The 2-liter turbocharged petrol engine, on the other hand, produces 190 horsepower and accelerates from 0-60mph in just under 7 seconds.

In terms of practicality, the MINI Countryman has its limitations. For example, the rear windscreen wiper is very small and only clears a tiny portion of the screen, making it difficult to see when cleaning the back window. Additionally, there are fake side air vents on the Cooper S model that look ridiculous and can't be removed. The fuel gauge is also made of cheap plastic, which may not be ideal for those who want a more premium feel.

Another annoyance is the lack of an armrest in the rear middle seat, which means you have to be careful when folding it down because it comes down with a lot of force. However, there are some positive features on the Countryman that make up for these downsides. For example, the car has a fold-out picnic bench that allows you to sit on the back of the car and enjoy a meal on the go. The height-adjustable seats also allow for a more comfortable driving experience.

One feature that's worth mentioning is the presence system, which measures how much you've driven off-road and awards stars based on your progress. This can be a fun way to track your adventures and see how far you've come. Additionally, the personalization options are almost endless, with 17 different colors for the mirror caps and a range of other customizations available.

Overall, whether or not you should consider purchasing the MINI Countryman depends on your individual needs and preferences. If you like the look of it and don't mind paying a premium price, it's definitely worth considering. But if you're looking for something more practical and affordable, you may want to explore other options.

**Easter Egg**

In this video, we included an Easter egg that might have gone unnoticed by some viewers. Can you spot the song being referenced in the background?

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the new MINI Countryman now what you're thinking there's nothing particularly mini about this car and you're right because that's the original 1960s MINI Countryman and this is a car yeah you probably can't tell the difference really in terms of the perspective but let me explain to you like this you see the original MINI Countryman was a bit like I'm rubbish up football bit like a football it's kind of small manageable very very useful whereas this one is more like a big silly colorful breech ball the advantage is those that you can actually fit a beach ball into this cause boot because it is rather large you've also got some storage and here quite a light because there's no spare wheel get the car we've run flat tires actually and there's some useful features like a little netted area here some straps wow that hurt my finger and some tethering points as well you've got 12 volt socket as well if you want to plug in something like an electric vacuum cleaner to clean out your boots you've had your dog in there now you've probably noticed there's no low lip to lift stuff over which is good and if I want more space I can fold down the rear seats but I do have to walk around to do it can't do it from the boot which is a bit annoying on the plus side though they do split three ways can carry things through here and two people either side and I'll show you the seats fold it down now there we go they don't get a completely flat floor but it's almost flat and it's continuously can push items right to the front of the car now let's just check out the back seats because another advantage of course of having a mini that's not so many is that you've got a decent amount of space here in the backseat so I'll just put them black using the little CAPTCHAs into position so I'll just illustrate now this seat is in my usual driving position I'm around 5 foot 11 I sit a dead straight got sufficient Headroom decent knee room even the middle seat is bearable so you can carry three in the back of this cart once if you want to turn on the whole yeah it's very very nice this car has the upgraded rear seat so for three of Japan extra you can slide them and where's that kept you can always looking at the kimchi's and recline them as well and that's an option definitely worth having if you ask me and if you click up there you can actually see more information on this cars practicality my practicality video and you can see how easy it is fit child seat in the back affair how much study can fit in the boot on what it's like with three adults here in the back now the downside of having a mini that doesn't look all that many is the fact that it looks a touch silly so it's a bit ridiculous for something that's called a mini to be so tall I have to jump a few to be able to see me over it then there's all like the design treatments that look okay on the littler mini but on this it's just it's just a bit ridiculous actually for me this is a bit of a carbuncle of a car it's not cheap either so it starts from twenty two and a half thousand pounds if you click up there to get a car why top coat UK you can pet offers from dealers and buy a prize do you're confident in now on the inside however there can be no doubt of which brand of car you're sat in because it's got that true mini character it's all quirky it's cutesy yet it's high-quality and it feels well built I mean the certain features I really live like that little toggle switches down here this huge round display in the middle of the dash now the car itself is actually quite practical because it's the big countryman so you've got huge door bins and there's some storage down here I also like the fact that it feels really here in the front so the tall roofline means that are tall people will be able to get comfy and because you can Jack the seat all the way up small people weren't then intimidated driving it either which is great news and then there's the infotainment system so this one actually has the upgraded system and it's very slick it's basically BMWs iDrive but with some cutesy mini graphics very nice and easy to use and if you click it there you can watch my full in-depth review of the entertainment system this one is actually upgraded and so that cost extra money now so when you look around the car there's quite a few extra options on it such as I mean we've got mood lighting in the door pockets it's all a bit extravagant and so is the price of the options so this one actually has 10,000 pounds worth of extra kit on it which quite frankly is obscene that's all the practical stuff dealt with now it's on see when this mini is like to drive underneath its skin this countryman shares quite a lot of its parts with a BMW x1 though it's lower and as a result it does go round corners better than the x1 in fact this thing handles pretty sweetly it isn't all about much in the corners and it's got sufficient grip as well it's there is a bit of fun this you know it's what you expect from something from the BMW group and of course a mini bass not as agile as the smaller minis because obviously it's taller it's bigger it's faster and it's kind of what you expect one thing to know is the steering I mean it's really sharp Eternia and this cause dots into a core it's a little bit surprising at times it actually has something called progressive steering now I'll try and explain that to you so I'm just gonna pull up over here so there's someone doesn't crash into the back of me now what it means is that the more I turn the wheel the increased amount the front wheels turn so if I turn the world this much let's say the wheels turn like that but then I go through another kind of similar amount of Turnage the wheels turn a lot more and what that means is that you can go from lock to lock in very few turns and that means that it's very easy to maneuver this car in town there's another way you can think about it is the longer I talk about the steering the faster people are clicking out this video so I better stop rabbiting on about it now and one of the downsides of having a car that's kind of sporty and a bit lively like this mini is that the suspension is a bit on the firm side some people will find it a touch uncomfortable and if you do find this car a little bit too firm you can get it with adaptive dampers which have a comfort mode which helps in terms of engines we're looking at diesel and petrol me I go for the 1.5 liter petrol because it's punchy enough and it gives decent economy though if you do lots and lots of Mars probably get the Cooper D however this one that I'm driving is the Cooper S so it's got two litre turbocharged petrol engine 190 horsepower specially naught 16 just over 7 seconds supposedly about 44 miles per gallon on averaging 31 which isn't great that pillar does great quite a blind spot and the back window isn't particularly large however there is one saving grace you get quite large quarter lights at the very back so when you're looking over your shoulder to maneuver or to join a juncture that does help a lot in fact if you click up there you can see for yourself by joining me for a 360 degree passenger right video not everything about the MINI Countryman is great is five annoying things about it the rear windscreen wiper is so small it only clears you a very small porthole to look through these fake side air vents on this Cooper S model just look rubbish you can't fit the parcel shelf underneath which is a shame the fuel gauge is all cheap and nasty and plastic lots of horrible children's toys this car doesn't have an armrest in the rear middle seat you have to be careful when you fold it down because it comes down with quite a force thankfully not everything about the countryman is bad there's plenty of cool features which more than make up for all this four hundred and fifty quid you can get a little fold-out picnic bench there so you can just sit on the back of the car and just knock good stuff I love the height falls away as well look there's a little mini logo inside the indicators it of course the button to put the car into sports mode or green mode is integrated into the gear selector the personalization options on this car are almost endless presence you can get the mirror caps in 17 different colours the mini country timer measures how much you've driven off-road the further you go the more stars you get now if you click at the aching at a carload OpCo dot uk' for more information and to save an average of twelve hundred pounds on a new MINI Countryman so then what's one verdict on it should you avoid it should be considerate should you shortlist it or should you just go right ahead and buy it well I reckon if you like the look of it you should short less than MINI Countryman it may be a bit expensive but it is a very good car they enjoy this video please like it and share it make up there to subscribe to our channel down there from our agency - beeping faster - Roy videos down there for my team tail practicality videos and up there to my sea tales with the Turner's video review of the MINI Countryman now did you spot the Easter Egg in this video it was the songs the countrymen fiddlethis is the new MINI Countryman now what you're thinking there's nothing particularly mini about this car and you're right because that's the original 1960s MINI Countryman and this is a car yeah you probably can't tell the difference really in terms of the perspective but let me explain to you like this you see the original MINI Countryman was a bit like I'm rubbish up football bit like a football it's kind of small manageable very very useful whereas this one is more like a big silly colorful breech ball the advantage is those that you can actually fit a beach ball into this cause boot because it is rather large you've also got some storage and here quite a light because there's no spare wheel get the car we've run flat tires actually and there's some useful features like a little netted area here some straps wow that hurt my finger and some tethering points as well you've got 12 volt socket as well if you want to plug in something like an electric vacuum cleaner to clean out your boots you've had your dog in there now you've probably noticed there's no low lip to lift stuff over which is good and if I want more space I can fold down the rear seats but I do have to walk around to do it can't do it from the boot which is a bit annoying on the plus side though they do split three ways can carry things through here and two people either side and I'll show you the seats fold it down now there we go they don't get a completely flat floor but it's almost flat and it's continuously can push items right to the front of the car now let's just check out the back seats because another advantage of course of having a mini that's not so many is that you've got a decent amount of space here in the backseat so I'll just put them black using the little CAPTCHAs into position so I'll just illustrate now this seat is in my usual driving position I'm around 5 foot 11 I sit a dead straight got sufficient Headroom decent knee room even the middle seat is bearable so you can carry three in the back of this cart once if you want to turn on the whole yeah it's very very nice this car has the upgraded rear seat so for three of Japan extra you can slide them and where's that kept you can always looking at the kimchi's and recline them as well and that's an option definitely worth having if you ask me and if you click up there you can actually see more information on this cars practicality my practicality video and you can see how easy it is fit child seat in the back affair how much study can fit in the boot on what it's like with three adults here in the back now the downside of having a mini that doesn't look all that many is the fact that it looks a touch silly so it's a bit ridiculous for something that's called a mini to be so tall I have to jump a few to be able to see me over it then there's all like the design treatments that look okay on the littler mini but on this it's just it's just a bit ridiculous actually for me this is a bit of a carbuncle of a car it's not cheap either so it starts from twenty two and a half thousand pounds if you click up there to get a car why top coat UK you can pet offers from dealers and buy a prize do you're confident in now on the inside however there can be no doubt of which brand of car you're sat in because it's got that true mini character it's all quirky it's cutesy yet it's high-quality and it feels well built I mean the certain features I really live like that little toggle switches down here this huge round display in the middle of the dash now the car itself is actually quite practical because it's the big countryman so you've got huge door bins and there's some storage down here I also like the fact that it feels really here in the front so the tall roofline means that are tall people will be able to get comfy and because you can Jack the seat all the way up small people weren't then intimidated driving it either which is great news and then there's the infotainment system so this one actually has the upgraded system and it's very slick it's basically BMWs iDrive but with some cutesy mini graphics very nice and easy to use and if you click it there you can watch my full in-depth review of the entertainment system this one is actually upgraded and so that cost extra money now so when you look around the car there's quite a few extra options on it such as I mean we've got mood lighting in the door pockets it's all a bit extravagant and so is the price of the options so this one actually has 10,000 pounds worth of extra kit on it which quite frankly is obscene that's all the practical stuff dealt with now it's on see when this mini is like to drive underneath its skin this countryman shares quite a lot of its parts with a BMW x1 though it's lower and as a result it does go round corners better than the x1 in fact this thing handles pretty sweetly it isn't all about much in the corners and it's got sufficient grip as well it's there is a bit of fun this you know it's what you expect from something from the BMW group and of course a mini bass not as agile as the smaller minis because obviously it's taller it's bigger it's faster and it's kind of what you expect one thing to know is the steering I mean it's really sharp Eternia and this cause dots into a core it's a little bit surprising at times it actually has something called progressive steering now I'll try and explain that to you so I'm just gonna pull up over here so there's someone doesn't crash into the back of me now what it means is that the more I turn the wheel the increased amount the front wheels turn so if I turn the world this much let's say the wheels turn like that but then I go through another kind of similar amount of Turnage the wheels turn a lot more and what that means is that you can go from lock to lock in very few turns and that means that it's very easy to maneuver this car in town there's another way you can think about it is the longer I talk about the steering the faster people are clicking out this video so I better stop rabbiting on about it now and one of the downsides of having a car that's kind of sporty and a bit lively like this mini is that the suspension is a bit on the firm side some people will find it a touch uncomfortable and if you do find this car a little bit too firm you can get it with adaptive dampers which have a comfort mode which helps in terms of engines we're looking at diesel and petrol me I go for the 1.5 liter petrol because it's punchy enough and it gives decent economy though if you do lots and lots of Mars probably get the Cooper D however this one that I'm driving is the Cooper S so it's got two litre turbocharged petrol engine 190 horsepower specially naught 16 just over 7 seconds supposedly about 44 miles per gallon on averaging 31 which isn't great that pillar does great quite a blind spot and the back window isn't particularly large however there is one saving grace you get quite large quarter lights at the very back so when you're looking over your shoulder to maneuver or to join a juncture that does help a lot in fact if you click up there you can see for yourself by joining me for a 360 degree passenger right video not everything about the MINI Countryman is great is five annoying things about it the rear windscreen wiper is so small it only clears you a very small porthole to look through these fake side air vents on this Cooper S model just look rubbish you can't fit the parcel shelf underneath which is a shame the fuel gauge is all cheap and nasty and plastic lots of horrible children's toys this car doesn't have an armrest in the rear middle seat you have to be careful when you fold it down because it comes down with quite a force thankfully not everything about the countryman is bad there's plenty of cool features which more than make up for all this four hundred and fifty quid you can get a little fold-out picnic bench there so you can just sit on the back of the car and just knock good stuff I love the height falls away as well look there's a little mini logo inside the indicators it of course the button to put the car into sports mode or green mode is integrated into the gear selector the personalization options on this car are almost endless presence you can get the mirror caps in 17 different colours the mini country timer measures how much you've driven off-road the further you go the more stars you get now if you click at the aching at a carload OpCo dot uk' for more information and to save an average of twelve hundred pounds on a new MINI Countryman so then what's one verdict on it should you avoid it should be considerate should you shortlist it or should you just go right ahead and buy it well I reckon if you like the look of it you should short less than MINI Countryman it may be a bit expensive but it is a very good car they enjoy this video please like it and share it make up there to subscribe to our channel down there from our agency - beeping faster - Roy videos down there for my team tail practicality videos and up there to my sea tales with the Turner's video review of the MINI Countryman now did you spot the Easter Egg in this video it was the songs the countrymen fiddle\n"