2017 MINI Countryman

Cooper
$26,100
Cooper ALL4
$28,100
Cooper S
$29,100
Cooper S ALL4
$31,100

Wondering which trim is right for y'all?

Our 2017 MINI Countryman trim comparison will help you make up one's mind.

All-new, five-seat compact SUV
Front- or all-wheel drive
Two turbocharged engines
3 available transmissions
Longer and wider than previous version
Highly customizable
Plug-in hybrid coming mid-2017

2017 MINI Countryman review: Our skilful's have

The verdict: Bigger and better in every way than the 2016, the new 2017 Mini Countryman is a fun and versatile subcompact SUV that outshines premium competitors costing thousands more.

Versus the competiton: Despite being well-nigh the aforementioned overall length as competitors, the new Countryman is far roomier, particularly in the backseat. Information technology has more headroom, more cargo room and more customization options, as well.

The second-generation Mini Countryman has arrived, now built off an all-new platform with all-new engines, transmissions and all-cycle bulldoze, equally well (compare the 2016 and 2017 models here). Information technology's bigger, more refined, more spacious and more powerful than always, just now that the Countryman has a lot more premium competition, can it notwithstanding control a premium price?

Despite sharing not a unmarried trunk panel with the outgoing Countryman, the new ane looks every bit a Mini. The front end has new taillights and the traditional Mini-style grille, while a taller greenhouse lets in more than light compared with the old model and its higher beltline. The biggest change comes in back, where the previous Countryman's horizontal taillights have been reoriented and now look similar larger versions of those seen on Mini Cooper's hatchback hardtop cars. The differences are subtle simply make for a cleaner, less awkward design.

Less-Mini Mini

What's not subtle is how the Countryman has grown over the approachable model — more than 8 inches in length and more an inch in width. That has led to a much bigger rear seat surface area and grade-leading headroom, but a seating position that'southward more than 5 inches higher than the comparably sized Mini Clubman iv-door. As with the rest of the Mini lineup, customizable options are practically boundless, from color combinations and stripes to special theme packages. Mini hasn't lost its versatility in making a new model exactly how you want information technology.

Dispatch: Scant or Punchy

Two versions of the Countryman are bachelor initially: the base model Cooper and the more powerful, sportier Cooper South. A high-performance John Cooper Works model arrives in April, and a plug-in hybrid volition arrive in June. The base of operations engine in the Cooper trim is a turbocharged, 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine making a worryingly scant 134 horsepower and 162 pounds-feet of torque. It's mated to a standard six-speed manual transmission or optional six-speed automated driving the front wheels. If y'all opt for the All4 all-wheel-drive option (newly available for the base Cooper, not just the Cooper Due south), that engine comes only with the eight-speed automatic.

The Cooper's 3-cylinder engine sounds pretty terrific. It's a growly footling mill that isn't agape to rev but never sounds thrashy or stressed. In effectually-town driving, it provides enough of depression-end torque to become you off the line, only put your foot to the floor and the Countryman runs out of steam fairly quickly. To its credit, information technology never stopped pulling — even on a long uphill course with ii big gentlemen onboard — while passing a semi. Merely for the enthusiasts out in that location, the Cooper S is the way to go.

That model features a new turbocharged two.0-liter 4-cylinder making a more robust 189 hp and 207 pounds-feet of torque. It's also bachelor with a six-speed manual (just but with all-wheel drive) or eight-speed automated (front- or all-wheel bulldoze). There'southward even a sport automatic eight-speed that adds flappy paddle shifters on the steering bicycle, plus more robust, heavier-duty internal components, electronic launch control and more than aggressive shifting behavior for faster acceleration. When launch control is engaged, Mini Cooper says the Countryman Cooper S can reach 60 mph in about 6.v seconds. The Countryman's brakes are soft on initial pedal application, but the more you dig into them, the progressively harder they work and the more confident they feel.

The Cooper S feels much quicker than the Cooper, with acceleration punch both around town and out on the highway that is truly addicting. Popular the mode selector into Sport and everything gets even more fun, with a different shift plan, firmer steering, unlike intermission settings and better accelerator response that turns the meaty crossover into a tossable, snarling trivial beast.

Yet despite all that ambitious attitude, both trim levels feature an astonishingly well-damped ride. Bumps are registered and broken pavement is revealed, but no unrefined, crashy disturbances get through to passengers. Road noise is another affair, only that had more to do with the terrible pebbly pavement surfaces around Portland, Ore., where I tested the cars than a lack of sound tedious in the Countryman.

The Mini Countryman requires much more than steering endeavor than practice competing vehicles similar the Audi Q3 or Mercedes-Benz GLA. I can't say much virtually handling beliefs, as I was unable to drive the Countryman besides aggressively due to choppy weather conditions. That evaluation will have to wait for a later test. Merely the overall feel of both Countryman trims is that of a tight, athletic, sporty premium compact that can be had in "fun" or "extra-fun" variants.

Surprising Space

The actress space the 2017 Countryman brings is immediately evident when sitting downward. In that location'south a ton of headroom, fifty-fifty with the standard panoramic moonroof, and plenty of width for front occupants in the knee, hip and shoulder areas. Backseat passengers have it good, as well, with a standard sliding, reclining and split up-folding rear seats, plus a surprising corporeality of legroom for all occupants. Visibility out of the Countryman is splendid in every management, with large windows all around and pillars that aren't overly thick.

The interior materials feel decidedly premium, helping justify the Mini Countryman's price over similar models from more than mass-market brands. The typical Mini Cooper cues are all here, such as the small, round multifunction gauge cluster fastened to the steering cavalcade, the big round circumvolve that houses the multimedia organisation, even the toggle-style switches for all sorts of functions both downwardly low and up high on the overhead console. Both vehicles I tested had sport seats, and both proved comfy and decently adjustable.

Touchscreens and Touchiness

There's an all-new multimedia system in the 2017 Countryman, one that's been redone for a more iconographic arroyo. It helps reconfigure things so they're suitable for the new touchscreen that'south now function of the arrangement, just it's only moderately successful: Some of the icons aren't exactly intuitive, in that location isn't a lot of colour contrast to place what you lot want to utilize quickly, and things are still buried in menus you'll take to navigate in society to get to items like vehicle settings. It as well had some big bug reading and playing songs from 2 different iPhones, sometimes non playing the music despite the screen showing it was, and more than often not playing the song information technology said was playing. Apple CarPlay and Android Automobile are not withal offered, but they're coming, Mini says.

If you don't get the larger eight.8-inch touchscreen, the standard 6.5-inch display required Mini to keep the multifunction, BMW-manner iDrive controller positioned down low and rearward on the center panel. Its position is unpleasant — it's difficult to see and reach — but it provides a familiar operating exercise for people used to the BMW/Mini controllers, and it also works with the larger screen.

The rest of the gauges and displays are typical Mini, which is to say they often emphasize style over function. Lots of people are content to deal with the quirkiness of Mini design — truly, it's i of the principal reasons people purchase Mini vehicles. Whether it satisfies you or not volition likely exist a thing of personal taste.

Snowblowers Unwelcome

The new Mini Cooper Countryman adds an additional five.4 cubic feet of cargo room over the outgoing model. While this might seem like a nice crash-land, don't allow it fool you: This is notwithstanding a small auto, and in the words of Mini's ain product planner, "Y'all're not likely to be hauling effectually snowblowers."

But I do hold with the make'due south contention that information technology's large plenty for its users: people who tend to use information technology in an urban environment to haul around four people — plus gear, when needed. Plus, the novel 40/20/40-divide folding, reclining and sliding backseat does improve the Countryman's versatility. Cargo room is listed at 17.6 cubic anxiety with the seats up, expanding to 47.6 cubic feet when they're folded. This is almost identical to the newest Mini Clubman, significant there's no existent cargo room advantage to getting the taller Countryman, only a difference in seating position.

Rather surprisingly for a premium vehicle, the new Mini Cooper Countryman does not offer all that much in terms of standard electronic safety equipment. Mini includes parking sensors, a fill-in photographic camera, and automatic headlights with rain-sensing windshield wipers as standard equipment, simply items like blind spot warning and rear traffic alert with cross-traffic detection are not even available. Frontwards collision alert with autonomous urban center braking and automatic altitude-keeping cruise command are optional.

Versatility Meets Value

The new Mini Cooper Countryman represents a dramatic improvement over the awkward, ungainly, compromised previous model. It'due south spacious, comfortable and feels more premium than the old version, and it embarrasses a lot of its competitors with its versatility and fifty-fifty with its value.

A base Cooper starts at $26,950 including an $850 destination fee. Adding all-wheel drive system bumps that upwards by a round $2,000, while opting for the more powerful, sportier Cooper S volition run you $29,950 for a front-wheel-drive model and $31,950 for an All4. Add together in some common options and you'll likely motion the MSRP up to the mid-$thirty,000 range. Adding every selection and more than than a few custom touches brings the price up to the depression-to-mid-$forty,000 range. The Cooper South All4 in which I spent nigh of my fourth dimension featured a number of popular options and rang in just north of $38,000.

Mini seems to take crafted a perfectly sized new offering for people looking for a premium compact crossover — one that's far more pleasant and accommodating than the one it replaces without losing any of the magical personality that has made Mini vehicles so popular.

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Consumer reviews

90% of drivers recommend this machine

Rating breakdown (out of 5):

Comfort 4.eight
Interior pattern 4.5
Performance four.half-dozen
Value for the money iv.v
Outside styling 4.7
Reliability 4.6

Most contempo consumer reviews

Nice vehicle with a big design flaw.

July 9, 2020

Past Steve from Salt Lake City

Owns this car

I have endemic two Mini Countryman, a 2015 and now currently a 2017 Countryman S ALL4. The car itself is nice, and later on 3 years I am happy overall with the vehicle except for one flaw which I consider to exist major if you lot don't like pouring money down the bleed. I am not happy at all with what appears to exist either an intentionally built in pattern flaw, or a complete lack of technology and incompetent design. The consequence: If you spill whatever liquid on the centre console where the loving cup holders are located, you have the potential to trigger a transmission warning that cannot exist extinguished, and will cost you thousands to repair. My girl had her potable spill on the centre panel, a full fountain drink that dripped out the peak and onto the console as she rounded a corner. This occurred several weeks ago and has had fourth dimension to dry completely. I now have a transmission service light on that cannot exist extinguished. I took the car to the dealer, and this is the story. Liquid, spilled on the console, nearly the cup holders, volition seep into the gear shifter mechanism located directly below the cup holders. When this mechanism and it'due south circuitry get wet, it triggers a transmission alert calorie-free that cannot exist extinguished, even after the mechanism has been dried. The service section indicated that at that place is no mechanical issue with the manual, and that the electronics in the machinery are functioning normally and there is no short. Despite this, there is no style to eliminate the transmission service low-cal. What has been explained, is that a wet detector, in one case triggered, will show this fault until the unit of measurement is replaced, fifty-fifty if in that location is no mechanical or electric reason for this fault lite to remain on. The price to supercede this unit of measurement (which is not mechanically or electrically compromised)? $1500.00 Some questions I asked; What is the reason to design a console that has a cup holder where whatsoever spillage from the cup holder potentially can toll $1500 to repair? No answer. What assures me that another spill later on the unit is replaced will non repeat the same event costing another $1500? No answer. Why is there not a waterproofing cover or plastic sheeting that deflects moisture away from the shifter machinery if it is located straight nether a cup-holder? No answer. Now my choice is, pay $1500 to repair a role that is not malfunctioning merely because information technology encountered a spill, and HOPE that information technology doesn't happen again, or leave the light on and HOPE a real transmission issue doesn't ascend that volition be masked by the fact that the light remains illuminated. This, in my opinion, is a very poorly designed car, if a unproblematic upshot like this tin cost such a large amount to repair. Did none of the engineers at Mini, consider this, and but cover the component with a wet deflection barrier? Or is this designed into the car and so that Mini may charge coin to replace a office that is actually working. $1500? Very poor design. I invite Mini to dispute this or provide any explanation as to why they would not protect circuitry under a CUP HOLDER from possible spillage. If I have a $1500 electronic component, I would never set my drink on top of information technology. Neither would I expect the manufacturer of that $1500 component to advise I identify drinks on top of it, Why? because anybody knows spills tin can happen,it would exist foolish to set my potable on a Stereo, no thing the cost. But that is exactly what Mini has done. Placed a $1500 component in the center console and then a cup holder directly above it, with no protection for the component at all. My recommendation, don't buy this machine, or, if you practise, don't allow any beverage in the car unless information technology's a sealed bottle, and so be very careful non to spill it.

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October ix, 2018

By BrandiTherese from Upper Marlboro, Physician

Owns this car

What tin I say about my Coutryman All4...I. LOVE. IT!!! I have previously only driven large SUVs and wanted to give a MINI a try considering they are pretty slick looking cars. I constitute my Countryman All4 and absolutely brutal in love with it. They tell me information technology is considered the SUV of the MINI line then that helped!! Not only did information technology come with all the bells and whistles that my previous Sequoia did not, just it was also spacious for a small car. The handling is cracking, the response when stepping on the gas is amazing and I am super excited that I tin fit into any street parking when typically I'd accept to locate a garage to park my bus! It has enough room for my family of four and the cargo room is exceptional for my daily tasks. I am absolutely sold on this small line of cars and non sure if I will go back to a large SUV in the time to come.

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HOT CAR. I odor you are jealous.

July 7, 2018

By mimi7878 from Ypsilanti, MI

Owns this car

I love information technology. Information technology'due south minor and peppy and fits everything I need it to fit. It looks great and runs neat and is fun to drive. I could not be happier.

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Roadside assistance: 48 months/unlimited distance

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