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MINI Countryman : First Drive
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With extra length and two extra doors, is the Mini Countryman still a Mini? Priyadarshan Bawikar investigates...
Though the price to pay for this nippiness is a rather hard ride which feels completely out of place on Indian roads and is rather spine-damaging if you happen to be sitting in the back when the driver is trying to negotiate bumpy roads at any sort of speed.
Overall, at Rs 35.9 lakh ex-showroom Mumbai, the Countryman Cooper S isn’t what you call affordable, and for those who want to fulfil their long-standing desire for a Mini, they can easily do that at Rs 7.3 lakh less with the Cooper S hatchback. But on a practicality scale, four doors do score significantly more than two, and if you like the cars you always dreamed about garnished with a good sprinkling of sense, then the Countryman is the one for you.
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Harry George
The reviewer has done injustice to tte vehicle by calling it a hatchback. It is a compact SUV of very high standard. Material, interior quality are all class.Swift etc are totally different class. No comparison. Don't let your biases and preconceived notions come into the review. You are not being honest to the product or the the readers.
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sp
It is for MONEY countryman
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himalaya
Comeon man! Which Indian in his right mind is going to spend Rs.36 lakhs for this car, which in many respects is not even as good as Maruti Swift, Figo or other similar cars readily available in India today. The days of British having a captive Indian market were over since 15th August 1947. High time the British understood this basic fact of life. Now, if this Mini was selling for around Rs.6 laks. Then........
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jigar
nice hatch back car....
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MSB
Maruti Swift Hatchback and ZDI in particular is the benchmark and I have not seen/read advertisement/articles featuring hatchbacks where enviable comparison has not been made to Swift be it Chevrolet's BEAT or Nissan's MICRA and not BMW's MINI Cooper S or the Countryman. Bottom line, Swift Hatch back is hard to beat!!!!
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