2016 Mini Hardtop Four-Door: What Two Extra Doors Get You - Cars.com News
Mini's usually diminutive vehicles have gotten decidedly much less mini during the last couple years, first with the addition of the three-door Clubman wagon, then with the pumped up Mini Countryman SUV. The regular Mini Hardtop got bigger too last year and is growing even more with a new four-door model. The four-door Hardtop costs $1,000 more than its two-door sibling. The two-door Hardtop measures 151. 1 inches long, and the new four-door model is about 6 inches longer. Backseat passengers are treated to 32. 3 inches of legroom, around 2 inches more than the two-door model. Rear headroom is also up from 36. 9 inches in the two-door to 37. 5 inches in the four-door. The four-door model is also more hospitable to car seats. In our Car Seat Check of the four-door , there was sufficient room for two car seats. Our rear-facing convertible car seat had enough space, but the rear-facing infant seat needed more. We had installation and room issues with the booster, infant seat and rear-facing convertible, earning the two-door model poor grades in our Car Seat Check. Two-door models offer a measly 8. 7 cubic feet of space behind the rear seats or 38. 0 with the backseat folded. Source: www.cars.com
