2008 Mini Cooper S Clubman Road Test: Wee Whimsy
Written By: Phil Floraday
We’re pretty sure what the marketers at Austin and Mini and Morris did back in the early 1960s when they needed to popularize the idea of buying a Countryman, Clubman, or Traveller—the three names given the original stretched micro-Brits. They searched the kingdom for shorter and smaller-featured men and women as advertising talent to stand next to and sit in the cars. We bet that entire environments—shop fronts, cities, forests—were built to two-thirds scale just to make the cars seem oh-so-practical. Cheeky monkeys.
Send to a friend
← Mediocre Inventions That are Probably Illegal: The Plate Flipper
Hands Free Fun with MotoRokr T505 →
Diesel with Attitude: The Audi A3 TDI Clubsport Quattro
Report: Volkswagen Working on Driverless Self-Parking System for Production
More Spied Images of New Camaro Interior
Early Scoop on Volkswagen Tiguan's U.S. Launch, Diesel Delayed? Not Coming? 
Report: Mercedes-Benz to Leverage Aluminum for Next E-class
HTML Formatting Tips
- To make something bold: <strong>Text to bold</strong>
- To make something italic: <em>Text to italicize</em>
- To make a hyperlink: <a href="URL">Text to link</a>
- To quote something previously said, you can use <blockquote>text</blockquote>
Markdown Formatting Tips (advanced)This site also allows use of Markdown formatting in the comment section. This accomplishes the same formatting as HTML but is typically easy to use.
my code* Second item
• Second item
1. Second item
2. Second item
<email@add.com>