When unveiling the Paceman concept at the 2011 Detroit auto show, Mini touted it as a “totally new category of car” thanks to an “innovative body concept.” The concept hardly lived up to the rhetoric and now that it has morphed into a production car, it can be a challenge to distinguish it at first glance from the Countryman. The front end, in fact, is identical to that mega-Mini five-door; its wheelbase hasn’t changed; even the interior incorporates precious few alterations, all destined to appear in the Countryman anyway. READ MORE ››


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