MINI Clubman Cooper D TIME flies when you’re having fun and it’s hard to believe I’ve had my MINI Clubman Cooper D for over six months now. But the last month of Clubman ownership was probably the biggest test of the ‘big’ MINI - a family holiday. My wife was sure that all our luggage for a week away wouldn’t [...]

MINI Clubman Cooper D Fourth report If you’ve been following my MINI Clubman Cooper D  long-term reviews, you’ll have probably noticed we haven’t had the best of luck with this car so far, with vandalism and wheel scuff already happening during our six-month tenure. Well, I am pleased to announce that our fourth month with the big MINI estate has [...]

AFTER a month of body massaging back at MINI, I was lucky that the return of my  MINI Clubman Cooper D long-termer, coincided with a long bank holiday drive to see a band in Manchester to test out the sat-nav, cruise control and economy. This was a bit of a test for the big MINI, as I’d not undertaken such [...]

THERE I was, saying how much I was looking forward to getting out and enjoy this big MINI in my last report, but thanks to mindless vandals it wasn’t to be in the MINI Clubman Cooper D: Second report. As just a couple of weeks after filing said report, our Clubman was back at MINI UK’s headquarters needing urgent cosmetic [...]

WITH two other ‘New’ MINIs on the Collins’ fleet, I suppose I was the obvious choice when MINI offered us the chance to run a MINI Clubman Cooper D for six months for Business Car Manager. But this Cooper D is a very different proposition to the other MINIs I own and enters the hotly contested upmarket hatchback sector, going up [...]