MotoringFile has a great
photo gallery of the Countryman Cooper Automatic and complains in its review:
The steering isn’t as immediate as the R56 and the ratio definitely feels slower but it adds up to the feel of stability that suits the car well. The suspension (non sport on this Cooper) clearly had more body roll than any MINI I’ve driven but it had more composure than any mainstream crossover I’ve ever driven. Or to put it another way there was body motion but it the R60 was always composed and predictable when pushed.
But it’s slow. If you thought a R56 Cooper auto was slow, add a three other grown men as passengers and you get an idea of what the R60 Cooper auto has to overcome. Steering paddles would be welcome because I had to work the hell out of the gears in the hills to keep up with Todd in the 2011 MCS and Matt in a 2010 JCW Convertible. But in the end I pretty much did if there were corners involved. This is a surprising car.
MotoringFile has a great photo gallery of the Countryman Cooper Automatic and complains in its review: 