The Mini Countryman John Cooper Works is what happens when a brand famous for small cars with big hearts decides to go big — without losing the heart. It’s an interesting balance, really. Here’s a car that needs to be both an SUV and a Mini, both practical and playful, both sensible and slightly mad. And against all odds, it somehow pulls it off. Mostly.
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Mini Cooper Country JCW ALL4 review: Design and dimensions
The Mini Countryman is large, with its aggressive stance, flared arches, squared-off nose, and grille-dominated face, it looks muscular in that signature.
You don’t so much walk up to the Countryman JCW as you size it up. It’s not the cute, button-nosed Mini from your childhood poster. This one’s wider, meaner, more sure of itself.
And it is big. Like really big. This thing is larger in every way than a Jeep Compass. The stance is aggressive, with swollen arches, a squared-off nose and a face that’s all grille and snarl. It looks muscular, even in that slightly cartoonish way Minis do — which is exactly the point. The JCW badging, the red stripes, the gloss-black roof and mirror caps, the quad exhausts — it’s loud without being tasteless. There’s a nice sense of theatre in how it announces itself, like a rock band tuning up before the first song.
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