Mini Paceman review (25/09/2013)

BY my reckoning there are now about 5,436 variants of the Mini on sale here — from the One, to the Cooper and Cooper S, Countryman, Clubman, Hatchback, Convertible, Coupe and Roadster and all the variants thereof. Ok, so I might just be exaggerating with regard to the 5,436, but the numbers of them appear to be multiplying quicker than the rabbit colony at the back of Barleycove beach.

And now we have a new one to add to the mix — the Paceman. The Paceman is effectively a two door — sorry, Sports Activity Coupe — version of the Countryman, which in itself comes with the appellation “Compact SUV” although it is more of a mish-mash between a regular family car and a crossover ... if you follow.

The bewildering ability of the Germans to come up with new and clever versions of the basic Mini concept has to come to a conclusion sometime, but — it would appear — that time is not going to be anytime soon.