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Looking for something unique in the small-car segment? Tired of the cookie-cutter sedans and hatchbacks that are just too bland to fit your groovy style? Then check out the MINI Clubman. Sure, it will cost more a month than a Hyundai Elantra GT , a Mazda3 Sport or a Volkswagen …

FRANKFURT, Germany— 301 horsepower. That’s how mighty the new turbocharged 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine is in the 2020 MINI John Cooper Works Clubman and MINI John Cooper Works Countryman, a 32-percent increase in output from the previous models. This is backed by 332 pound-feet of torque, up 28 percent, and with …

MINI jumps back into the hot wagon segment by giving the John Cooper Works treatment to its second-generation Clubman. The Clubman is a four-door MINI station wagon which entered its second generation for the 2016 model year. The new Clubman is actually the largest MINI ever produced, measuring 4270 millimetres …

I’ve written many times about how I disagree with the direction BMW’s MINI brand took a number of years ago. Be that as it may, I cannot deny that MINI has done reasonably well for itself over the last short while with the introduction and reintroduction of many new and …

The Automobile Journalists Association of Canada, or AJAC, will be holding their yearly CCOTY testing next week at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Clarington, Ontario. There will be eight categories this year, and the most interesting one for Canadian car shoppers is undoubtedly the Best New Small Car Category.

The Clubman is a revolutionary vehicle in the sense that it has propelled the MINI brand into uncharted waters: the compact segment. Thanks to its size and handling, the Clubman is challenging the Volkswagen Golf, Mazda3 Sport and Ford Focus hatchback—and that alone is revolutionary. But other things never change.

Until very recently, the MINI line-up was split into two distinct categories: the smaller cars (3-door Cooper, Cabriolet, Roadster and Clubman) and the bigger ones (Country, Clubman and Paceman). The addition of the 5-door last year changed all that, as this new vehicle infringed on Clubman territory. To rectify this, …