2011 MINI Countryman
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File this one in the "we hope, but we don't expect" drawer, as it's almost too good an idea to be true: a road-legal, widebody, 300-horsepower MINI Countryman based on the World Rally Championship car. The source of the rumor? Anonymous and sketchy, but we almost don't care. Almost, because we hate getting our hopes crushed. And an all-wheel-drive, sub-2,500-pound, big-fendered, truly race-bred hatchback is the sort of thing that really gets our hopes up. We'll follow the story where it leads, but that may well be a dead end. [AUSmotive]
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Spy Shots: 2011 MINI Cooper Countryman S DieselThese are the first spy shots of the upcoming MINI Cooper Countryman S Diesel, the sportier diesel variant of MINI's mildly offroad-capable model. Shown with almost no attempts to hide the car's nature, the Countryman S Diesel could be in production by early next year. Like the standard Cooper S...
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MINI Countryman Set for World Rally Car Debut
With MINI's return to rally racing imminent, the BMW brand brought a special concept car to the 2010 Paris auto show--the Countryman World Rally Car it intends to use, to re-establish itself in the racing series. With new Formula 1 rules for the WRC now in place, the 1.6-liter four-cylinder MINI...
Martin Padgett
