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Peter Anderson

Contributing journalist

7 min read

Way back in January (yes, it's August already), I was piloting a second-generation Mini Countryman through Oxfordshire's back roads and I rather enjoyed it. Partly because my perverse nature marvelled at how cranky this car makes traditionalists but mostly because it was good. Very good. 

Another reason I enjoyed it was the fact that there was clearly plenty more to come from the chassis. 

Mini agrees and as surely as night follows day, the Countryman now has a JCW pack which will no doubt make the even crankier. Mini put us to work driving the new Countryman JCW on both sealed roads and gravel for the first time in Australia.

Read the full Mini Countryman JCW 2017 review.