Now You Can Go Camping On The Roof Of Your Mini Countryman
Mini owners: rejoice! For you can now put a tent on top of your Countryman. Because of course you can.
Italian car roof tent manufacturer (who knew?!) Autohome has developed a boxy roof tent for the largest Mini. Measuring 130x210cm, it looks like a streamlined, 33cm-high roof box when collapsed, but expands to create what is apparently a 94cm-high two-berth sleeping space. Mmmm, cosy.
The 58kg fibreglass and canvas unit is easier to set up than a regular tent, though; just flip the safety hooks aside and four “gas springs,” which we assume are pneumatic rams, lift the roof up and into position. It can’t be that difficult, because on the instructions above, Autohome has wasted an entire image on a shorts-wearing discomfort enthusiast looking very pleased with himself.
The 58kg tent isn’t Mini’s first brush with rooftop camping. Back in summer 2013 the brand revealed three camping special editions, one of which was the, err, Countryman Camp. No, we’re not kidding. The other two were a Clubvan with a built-in bunk and kitchenette, and a little Cowley caravan.
Shipping for the new Autohome roof tent begins in the summer, so you’ve got a month or two to start planning where you’re going to use it first. You could argue it would save on hotel bills for road trips, but at €2836.93 it’s not exactly cheap. That’s quite a lot of Travelodge rooms, after all…
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Making your mini…… even less mini (literally)
Yup. Now, it’s just a name. Funny since they still look (kinda) small, but once you walk up to one…
This face makes me think that the Countryman is like, “Sigh, can we not go camping next time?”
He doesn’t like camping either.
Well when you get out of the tent in the morning you don’t have to look at it, so it’s a yes from me
But can a Countryman have three storeys? And a pot plant?
And down force so high that the front lifts up.
And sand?
And a Jeremy Clarkson?!
“You can sleep in a car, but you can’t drive a house”
At this point the Mini Countryman should just be renamed to the Big Countryman, cause it isn’t exactly what you’d call ‘mini’…
That’s another option if you don’t want a caravan
You know what, I think its actually quite cool
Why, just why
Pretty much