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Lodging Planner for Dunsmuir Railroad Park - Oct. 11 - 13, 2024

  Three days of MINIs, friends, forests, and old railroad cabooses. NOTICE: To all Registered Club Members interested in attending this 3-da...

MINI Enthusiast Not Impressed By The Countryman


Don ‘db’ Burnside, an admitted MINI Enthusiast and 2003 R50 driver, writes about his drive in the Countryman from Illinois to Michigan. It doesn't impress him.  He complains in a letter to MotoringFile about MINI Connected on the iPhone, laggy navigation, the confusing entertainment menus, the amount of road noise from the run-flat tires, wind noise from the windows, and the reach in the manual for 5th and 6th gears,