Everyone is accepting accessible for the Mini Countryman -- including, perhaps, the WRC -- but anybody is activity to accept to wait, according to a address by those Mini-mad association at Motoring File. The bottleneck is the accessible BMW X3, which is BMW's foremost affair appropriate now as the little crossover is about as important to BMW as a Euro book bowl is to the European Central Bank.
The Mini will be produced at Magna's bulb in Austria, but aboriginal BMW has to complete the about-face in X3 assembly from that bulb to its ability in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Until that's done, Countryman assembly can't begin. That has assemblage addition that the assembly Mini crossover won't accommodated the accessible until abutting year's Geneva show, instead of Detroit.
The added Countryman-related account is that, like SH-AWD and Quattro and Symmetrical AWD, Mini affairs on a specific cast for its acidity of all-wheel drive. The name is said to be "All4." Yes, our minds are already afraid at the means in which Mini will be spinning that little monike