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Motorpoint review of the Countryman S
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The Mini Countryman Thread
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The Untamed is an off-road ready Mini Countryman, with a catch
Fancy a hiked-up, trail-ready Mini? In Europe, it’ll need to be electric…
Meet the gnarliest Mini Countryman yet. Modern, BMW-run Mini celebrates its 25th year in 2026, so a rich seam of special editions was always on the cards. What we’d not anticipated was a trail-ready crossover like this.
The Untamed Edition has made its grand debut in the States, a place where stuff like this is rife. Plenty of carmakers gussy up their core SUVs for buyers who genuinely wish to take them off the beaten track, whether for a brief meander out or a properly off-grid camping expedition.
The big news concerns its ride height, which climbs as much as 19mm over a standard Countryman with the combination of new, 15mm-higher suspension and specially developed Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain tyres. Mini has tweaked the car’s steering, ABS and stability control to complement the rejigged hardware and its newly knobbly tyres house steelie-looking (but actually lightweight alloy) 19in wheels. We’re promised optimised approach and breakover angles when overcoming obstacles too.
But there’s a catch. US customers who tick the Untamed box get all of the above across the car’s various petrol and electric powertrains (barring the lower, tauter Countryman John Cooper Works, inevitably). Those of us in Yoo-rup can only spec the taller ride with an electric Countryman E or SE, our petrol models limited to a more visual makeover.
Fancy a hiked-up, trail-ready Mini? In Europe, it’ll need to be electric…
Meet the gnarliest Mini Countryman yet. Modern, BMW-run Mini celebrates its 25th year in 2026, so a rich seam of special editions was always on the cards. What we’d not anticipated was a trail-ready crossover like this.
The Untamed Edition has made its grand debut in the States, a place where stuff like this is rife. Plenty of carmakers gussy up their core SUVs for buyers who genuinely wish to take them off the beaten track, whether for a brief meander out or a properly off-grid camping expedition.
The big news concerns its ride height, which climbs as much as 19mm over a standard Countryman with the combination of new, 15mm-higher suspension and specially developed Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain tyres. Mini has tweaked the car’s steering, ABS and stability control to complement the rejigged hardware and its newly knobbly tyres house steelie-looking (but actually lightweight alloy) 19in wheels. We’re promised optimised approach and breakover angles when overcoming obstacles too.
But there’s a catch. US customers who tick the Untamed box get all of the above across the car’s various petrol and electric powertrains (barring the lower, tauter Countryman John Cooper Works, inevitably). Those of us in Yoo-rup can only spec the taller ride with an electric Countryman E or SE, our petrol models limited to a more visual makeover.