and no one can use anymore due to new laws. btw, to those wondering, the Baja was assembled in Subaru's Indiana plant, thus was exempt from the Chicken Tax.
Right when he said “It doesn’t feel like anything special. Just a base model mini. There’s a lot of these.” Another mini drove by going the other way. That timing was impeccable.
Thank you for reviewing this. I may be part of a minority but my favorite videos of yours are the reviews of quirky and obscure cars. I love this Clubvan.
Got one for the family business about a year ago. Absolutely love it, its perfect. I live in Ireland so its perfect for the narrow streets when doing deliveries. My one has a 1.6 litre diesel engine and a manual transmission. Had no idea about the compartment above the glove box😂😂
Sam Kendellen I had a ‘09 cooper and I found out about that compartment when I bumped it by accident....the last owner left a pair of sunglasses in it :)
Man what? We already had 5 different Minis in the family and we never knew any one of them had this cool little compartment. It would’ve been really handy at times!
But are they really there? Or is the trim just there? This thing looks so poorly made I wonder if it's even built by mini or if they sent it to somebody to have it converted.
And that would be pretty much spirit of the original Clubman. When it was people's vehicle and not parody of itself for rich and dumb, mainly female, customers.
The structural integrity of vinyl decals and plastic panels are an important safety feature of this van. Also wearing Vans while driving this van will increase your Mini vibe to Maximum.
I used to own a R56 MINI and stumbled upon the hidden compartment by accident when cleaning my car. I was wiping it down and it popped open. It was the best day of my life.
@@rootsmanuva82 Marketing people in the automobile industry have an actual technical term for that experience (discovering a cool feature of a car that you didn't know about before you bought it): "surprise and delight". I kid you not.
This car has a niche - if your company has to make deliveries and you want to make a statement this could make business sense. Your clients would remember the vehicle, which they would not do if you were in a regular commercial small van.
In reality the reason they made was that in Europe they could be registered as vans and so would have cheaper taxes. Many small businesses use small vans like this or the Ford Fiesta Van.
YBNmahir That actually would be a parfait name for this car but since minivan is used for other vans so I can see why this needed to be called differently to distinguish it.
Probably what the British would call a "Republican," meaning someone who doesn't want the Queen "Elizabeth Rex (ER)" as head of state any longer. This is supposedly a British car/van, after all.
As a Clubman owner, you missed one of the best things about the ambient light toggle switch up top. If you toggle it like a normal switch you get those big color changes, but if you press and hold, it will cycle through the spectrum and gradients and all that fun stuff! You can find all those ambient lights throughout the car and they're in some particularly odd spots too.
@@phuzz00 I'm surprised BMW got away with releasing a massive speciality coupe in the place of a tiny practical saloon car. They should have called it the Maxi, but then again that would suggest more than 3 cubic inches of interior space.
"We noticed you like the Mini Clubman. What if we told you we could do a car like that, but it looks worse and has half the windows? ;)" I'm being facetious. I fjsxking love these videos.
@R A It's very rare in Europe too, they sold 1042 in the UK (apparently, this was 'meeting its target'!), that was from 2012-15. In its most popular year, 2013, it sold around 650, which represents just over 1% of all UK Mini sales. To be fair, its a pretty small market, even here, the Corsavan (based on the popular Vauxhall Corsa) sold 1500 in 2012, and would have been much cheaper. They only stopped making it because they replaced the Clubman and obviously it wasn't worth doing again. Lesson here is maybe don't listen to 12 year olds? (A 12 yr old allegedly wrote to Mini to ask them to build it). I have only ever seen one (discounting ones I saw on a Mini stand).
Because it was way too expensive. That kind of car is bought for business purposes, and unless you really want to invest in the "coolness factor" you will buy a much more practical car like a VW Caddy or the like for less than 20.000 Euros.
When someone at the BMW board meeting mistook an aprils fool joke as an actual concept idea and just put it into production without further questioning..
I find it interesting that at 10:25, the "ER" on "COOPER" is taken off, leaving only "COOP". The only term I can think of that uses "coop" is "chicken coop". The Mini Clubvan was taken out of the U.S. because of the chicken tax. Is that a reference, or is the "ER" taken off by random chance?
Looking at the name alone - Clubvan - It sounds like one of those catchy names that a RUclipsr gives a car after a crazy mod For example, the Subaru Outfap
Doug, some other weird or interesting things about the car: I used to own a Clubman and the rear door pillars are no big deal. I could still see even a Mazda Miata behind me in rush hour traffic. When opening the rear doors, the tail lights flash and stay on. i guess it's so you can walk to your front door with your arms full of cargo I think they left the third Club door in because it was cheaper than redoing the body While on the subject of doors, the MINI is the only car I've ever owned where the doors can be opened 90 degrees! My current car only swings them out to about 80 or so. It's cool looking at the MINI from the front with both doors wide open. If you push the door lock button on your key fob and HOLD it down, the doors lock and your windows roll up if they weren't fully raised. One thing that makes no sense is why the tail lights have ONE reverse light and not two. I can't find a single reason for that. Also it makes no sense that the driver side door has a manual keyhole as a backup if your battery died but the passenger side doesn't The windshield wipers were the worst part of the car. There were only three modes: one sweep every 4 seconds, one sweep every second and fast (about twice the speed). Is the rain not that strong? Sorry, you can't adjust the wiper speed. A lot of owners had to install an aftermarket brace in the engine bay. It connected to the top of the fenders to keep the body more rigid since it flexed so badly. This made the steering lose alignment very quickly. I was forced to get an alignment subscription because of this issue! Seriously, I paid a one time fee (which was huge but I guess they knew I'd be making a lot of trips) and I got an alignment every month no matter what the mileage was or even if it was my fault (such as sideswiping a curb). In the long run, it was cheaper that way. This was originally intended as a "woody" wagon for surfers, hence the surfboard roof if viewed from the side. Sadly the woody wagon never made it past the drawing board. I'd LOVE to own one, especially with a surfboard rack which was to come with the car if it was approved for production. I wish you had shown the a/c vents. When you turn the knob, they "spin" closed like a ship propeller! Very weird. What makes me sad is MINI got rid of these and went to the boring old rectangular "window shutter" design found on 99% of all cars. If you had the S model Clubman (I've driven both versions) it suffered from the turbo creeping the car to the right! If you stomped on the gas pedal, you had to hold the wheel with both hands or the car would veer off right! I nearly crashed into a curb doing that! And even the Clubman with a turbo 4 cylinder was very fast. As if that wasn't enough, the cars suffered from a different kind of turbo meltdown. They actually melted the hood! The hood is piping hot after pushing the S model hard even during short trips. Many owners sued MINI because of this and demanded a new hood. I have no idea about the outcome of that... And the weirdest thing about the car: the MINI had a wireless key fob that we all take for granted now. They now work like this: if your key fob is in the car, the door locks will not work. On the MINI, I learned the hard way that the very first generation (which I had) didn't work exactly like that. If you had a Clubman and locked your keys in by accident, the horn sounded, the lights flashed and the REAR door popped open. It was difficult and awkward trying to climb over the seats to get into the cockpit but I was able to get in and grab the key fob. I can't buy a VW Amarok because of the chicken tax? And the news whines about tariffs AFTER Obama left office... It's sad that this cool Minivan has an auto. My car had a 6 speed manual and it changes the driving experience. It is always makes cars like the MINI more fun to drive.
@@Calyx Are you kidding? I didn't watch the video, I did assume he drove somewhere random and that happened. Even in the case you mentioned: It's not a common occurence
@@anabang1251 so you're saying it's not common to see 2 Mini Coopers close to the largest dealership in the continental US? Are you just trolling at this point?
I am the proud owner of 1.6 Manual Clubman in the UK its done 304,000 miles from new and has been bullet proof. Hoping for another 300,000!! Not as rare in the UK but I would say there's less than a thousand. Great little vehicle and the quirks are great. Highly recommend Andy B
@@robertlee9395 yet Japanese or European cars/trucks built in the USA are generally of inferior quality to Japanese or European cars/trucks built in their home lands, Hell even Canada builds them better... congratulations on getting shittier cars
There are three types of Mini owners: 1. spoiled 20 year old girls sponsored by daddy 2. older (wo)men in their mid-life-crisis 3. really strange guys...
Thats funny. I often drive my wife's CooperS. She is 47 and I'm a little strange. Still a cool car to drive. Feels fast but actually you get to keep your licence.
Good review Doug. My wife and I have the 2010 Clubman JCW with all the options. It comes with a cargo net and you can store things under the optional flat load floor ($500). Seriously fun to drive with immense grip, but repairs are costly. Having to learn how to work on these Minis to save money. Thank God for internet how-to videos. We're gluttons for punishment though, as our other car is the 2012 Mini Inspired by Goodwood Bespoke edition.
It's actually the best handling car in the game (with junkman parts). Near the end of the main career no car can take corners as fast and as predictable as the Fiat Punto... it allows to basically forget about braking on most tracks. Absolutely no understeer, stupid fast acceleration, lightweight... What else should a perfect racing car be?
I believe the actual official total in the US is 57 of these. We had one at our dealer, and you could actually get them with a manual transmission but I believe most, if not all were ordered as automatics. We put 18" JCW wheels, some custom graphics, and a surf board rack and sold it soon after.
Wow. I never thought I’d see the day when Doug reviews a ClubVan. Good work doug. Edit: damnit doug, don’t expose the secret compartment to non-mini owners
I had one - bought it 2nd hand in 1968. They were cheaper than the estate because there was no sales tax on vans. You could buy a window kit and rear seat and convert it back into an estate, and then pay tax according to its resale value- which for an 8 year old van was counted as 0! The 850 cc engine was rated at 28bhp.
It was the same treatment with the pre-mini, the Morris Minor. They made an estate version called the Morris Traveller, and when the Morris Mini Minor came out, They made an estate version called the Morris Mini Traveller. Fun fact, they replaced the 850cc 4 in the Mini Minor in the early 60s with the 950cc 4, but not in the Mini Traveller. Sorry for the essay.
I wish Doug had done a bit more research and talked about the Mini's history of Van variants. Back in the 60s and 70s the mini was a platform for lots of different utility vehicles which became super popular for tradespeople working in cities. The original mini van was an icon of it's time. Once you know that it changes the way you look at this car. It's just a shame they half-assed it because the original was pure sheetmetal all the way back.
2013 Cooper owner here, there's a couple more quirks with this era Mini: - if you hold the ambient light switch for a few seconds, the colors change perpetually! - the gear selector knob is made to look like a racing helmet! - the Mini community calls the fuel gauge lights "candy corns"! - not a quirk, but acceleration is virtually non-existent unless you're in sport mode, especially if the A/C's on! - also not a quirk, but if Doug took the car on a curvy road he would at least bump the "Fun Factor" score up to a 4! (and yes, I knew there was a secret compartment on the passenger side dash, its where I hide my microfiber cloth, shhh)
Dont buy a mini, they are unreliable and costly bmw trash these days. A 128i is a far better car with rwd, if you insist on bmw made. So many loved their orig redux mini then had a nightmare with the second purchase. Fiesta/focus st beat the crap out of minis. That 1.6 fiesta ecoboost is a champ, zero reliability concerns compared to a mini or even the ecoboom 2.3 mustang...and thats in a car that people dont beat on they wail on.
@@TheFreshPeddler But Minis are so quircky... I want to buy one, don't care much about reliability. I just want a fun car, not a regular BMW or Fiesta, oh gosh.
"Totally useless door" you know , unless you remove the totally removable black grill , seems like with a folded seat there'd be plenty of room to load over that 7 in tall metal lip
I'm not sure that that is true , it may be some sort of insurance regulation or a law if you're actually carrying cargo for a business I will give you the benefit of the doubt, certainly in America it is indeed legal, but none the less Doug makes it clear it is in fact removable by saying it's removable . I don't know about the newest models but I rarely saw such a cargo fence in the Vans I've seen throughout my life
Fun fact about the central speedometer: if your head unit breaks (like mine), it's quoted at around $1,600 to fix because of how it's made and integrated into the dial. In order to replace it you need to take the whole dash apart and rewire everything and the original stereos are apparently pretty expensive and there's several different radio options and change depending on the cd changer (which is built even farther down into the center console) and a bunch of other shit.
This would make a great, albeit tiny, pop-top camper. Make the pop top tall enough so you could stand, or almost stand up in the back. Pop top could have a small bed in it and a mini-mini fridge, tiny propane burner, sink and fold out seating down below. Totally ridiculous idea but I think it would be cool for very short camping stints at a racetrack or something.
I mean it is available in the rest of the world just fine. Are there people that are so insanely patriotic that they will pay that much money for a car simply because it was officially imported? Just buy one from Europe for $10.000. If you are that desperate for a crappy van I think you can afford the chicken tax.
Mini dealership: so uh... what kind of minicooper do you want to re- Doug: oooo whats that a minicooper van can i review it? Dealership: ummmmm.... i guess??
@R A There are less than 1000 on the road! To compare, there are 750,000 Mini's on the road, there are over 3000 Lamborghini's, almost 2000 McLarens, and over 10,000 Ferrari's! These are incredibly rare!!!
I was going to make the comment but figured somebody else spotted that - either that's a coincidence (probably not) or intentional but it is HILARIOUS (especially just after he talks about - it comes up in the video like that, LOL!).
Hi Doug - just wanted to raise the point that with a full cargo, you wouldn't be able to see out of the back door - most van drivers wouldn't even use that rear view mirror due to most vans not having one. I've driven vans enough that I don't even use them in cars with full visibility out of the rear windscreen, and as such I tend to remove the rear view mirror to gain better visibility through the front. It's amazing just how much extra visibility you get this way.... Keep on keeping on pal, love your work.
hope u know it's not gonna be worth money or anything, the $40 you paid for it is literally just a donation to him for a photo of a car and his name stamped.
@@dilburger6902 Exactly. He's done a few regular classics, like the VW Thing, and it was obvious he has no appreciation or knowledge of older non-exotic cars.
I work for a Mini dealership in the UK and only ever seen 2 of these. With regards to the Cooper S version, It was only available with the 1.6 (N16, Nuturoisly unreliable) petrol or the N47 Diesel (Also very unreliable). One of our customers has converted his to JCW Bumpers, Trims and alloys and has all the spec on it and it would make for a very cool little work van
SP392 / yep! There are thousands of people in all countries sleepping in their cars but that's not camping, that's just survival. One step above sleeping on the ground I hate to say😔
@@NewAgeDIY The van dwellers make it look pretty fun. Personally I think it would be fun for a month or so traveling around, but I couldn't do it full time like those guys.
Sometimes, you make a video because you REALLY want to make it, even though you know nobody will watch it. This is that. Enjoy!
Your weird car videos get a lot of views idk
have you ever owned a MINI? i'm a 1499GT owner
ok, im interested
Weird is what we are here for
Doug you should review the Ferrari f1 car in Dave Lee’s collection
I saw one of those once a while back, wondered why someone would vinyl the windows like that. Didn't realize I was looking at a super rare vehicle.
Same lol. I cant believe theres only 50
Haha me too!
@@cocoadog1998 in the usa yeah. There are like a few thousand in Europe so it's a bit more common here.
@@AXELVISSERS I just looked on autotrader in the UK and there's like 30 for sale on that alone. I've seen quite a few here in the UK too
@Axel Vissers Means I can import one for cheap.....16 years from now.
Brilliant!
Bugatti Chiron: We're one of the rarest production models available
Mini Clubvan: Hold my discontinued sales
ive seen quite a few of these vans around London and Brighton, had no idea they are rare cars, lol
@@ETr4d3 They are only rare in the US you can pick them up in the UK used for like £8000.
*hold my windows
Saab 9-5 NG wagon... Around 35 sold world wide.
Fiat Mulitpla: Hold my cocaine
The chicken tax is also why the Subaru Brat shipped with those seats (that everyone immediately removed) in the bed.
and no one can use anymore due to new laws.
btw, to those wondering, the Baja was assembled in Subaru's Indiana plant, thus was exempt from the Chicken Tax.
@@GiordanDiodato it also just had back seats enyway
@@GiordanDiodato The Brat is from 1978 to 1986, and is NO where near the same as the Baja from the mid 2000s.
@@TimMonk1911 it's still classified as a light truck
@@GiordanDiodato it's still perfectly legal to use the jump seats in a BRAT in all states
I dont know Doug, looks like a full size dealership to me.
LOL
Underrated comment.
Take this like and get out!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Venom, you magnificent bastard... I read your comment!
Doug still dresses like a level 1 gta online character with no high-end apartment.
D E F A U L T S T Y L E
*GTA NPC
Nah, Doug's a Level 100 Mafia Boss but doesn't want to show it.
Going to make a Doug avatar for my FH4.
Kid that's how mafia works
Right when he said “It doesn’t feel like anything special. Just a base model mini. There’s a lot of these.” Another mini drove by going the other way. That timing was impeccable.
17:33 - 17:45
what's even better is that 2 of them actually passed by lol
Thank you for reviewing this. I may be part of a minority but my favorite videos of yours are the reviews of quirky and obscure cars. I love this Clubvan.
Got one for the family business about a year ago. Absolutely love it, its perfect. I live in Ireland so its perfect for the narrow streets when doing deliveries. My one has a 1.6 litre diesel engine and a manual transmission. Had no idea about the compartment above the glove box😂😂
Sam Kendellen I had a ‘09 cooper and I found out about that compartment when I bumped it by accident....the last owner left a pair of sunglasses in it :)
Wait you probably have the only one over here in Ireland
Man what? We already had 5 different Minis in the family and we never knew any one of them had this cool little compartment.
It would’ve been really handy at times!
@@Adamlol642 hardly i seen about 6 of them for sale on donedeal about a month ago
@@Irishman-lr6ry oh cool
Is the COOP on the back door another clause of the chicken tax?
No. It's because of the horrible quality.
Cooper Fix(ChrisFix)
owner tore off the E & R
I only scrolled down the comments to see if anyone else noticed
Doug's Girlfriend: Hey babe, how does my new dress look?
Doug: Styling is ok, not the best, it gets a five out of ten
For all my thoughts go to autotrader.com/oversteer
@Randominator He's married bro.
@TableRocked So you have been with his wife?
Wes Nunn Lol.
Quirky quirk of a dress
Doug: I borrowed this club van from Crevier Mini
CNC motors: Am I a joke to you?
I'm sure CNC Motors could use a break from Doug
@@AdamG1983 Oh boy, did they ever get that break from him…
Doug the type of guy to get locked in a motorcycle
😂😂😂😂
TOP 10 FOOTBALL "help, this Ducati monster has me stuck to the seat! It won't let go! Don't just stand there HELP ME!!!!"
Well done
Wait you can’t do that!!!!
@@utaur whoosh
Videos like these are exactly why I'm subscribed to Doug
Agree!
Not me, I like when Dougie reviews vehicles I might buy or strange/exotic. This club car looks like the ones used for deliveries/BORING
I also like reading the creative "Doug is the type of guy to.." Comments🤪
They left the rear airbags in.
You didn't notice that.
But are they really there?
Or is the trim just there?
This thing looks so poorly made I wonder if it's even built by mini or if they sent it to somebody to have it converted.
Quality Productions if they are still there, it actually helps cargo in the back get less damaged in a crash
It's not wise to take out airbags
seatbelts in the door too
You need them for any eggs or chickens you might carry
Kid: read me a bedtime story
Doug: * pulls out owners manual *
Doug reading to kids: a red dog, a blue dog in a white car...I give it a score of 5/10
@Menachem Goldfarb and yet I got two likes
@@mitchellgildea6944 3 bro
No no no you've got to word a Doug joke as "Doug's the type of guy to..."
If you want your own just buy a Clubman and stick a piece of cardboard to the rear windows...
And put a couple of tennis rackets between the drivers and the trunk.
Write “Clubvan” onto the rear with a spray can
Take the clubman and paint over the windows
And that would be pretty much spirit of the original Clubman. When it was people's vehicle and not parody of itself for rich and dumb, mainly female, customers.
LOL, truth right.
The structural integrity of vinyl decals and plastic panels are an important safety feature of this van. Also wearing Vans while driving this van will increase your Mini vibe to Maximum.
I hear the vibe in vinyl you be flattening down, maybe she'll put on a mini skirt too.
😂😎
WTF... just checked and my mini has the same extra glovebox. did't know that and i have had my mini for a year now.
Doug didn't read you the manual?
Anders blichfeldt yeah I have a mini too and didn’t know but my wife found it out 😂
That proofs Doug's dedication to quirks and features.
I used to own a R56 MINI and stumbled upon the hidden compartment by accident when cleaning my car. I was wiping it down and it popped open. It was the best day of my life.
@@rootsmanuva82 Marketing people in the automobile industry have an actual technical term for that experience (discovering a cool feature of a car that you didn't know about before you bought it): "surprise and delight". I kid you not.
"Hey look! It's a minivan!"
Nice joke, dad
Cypress Thunder there was already a mini van in the 60s
It’s a mini work van
Lmao yeah
Ha
That's actually the perfect car for dogwalkers.
True but the ceiling needs a huge window to let light in
my dog loves to get his head out and enjoy the wind - this is a nightmare car for dogs.
@@ETr4d3 I'm referring to paid dogwalkers who need to transport up to 5 dogs at a time and make sure that they are safe.
a career investment
Exactly. It’s the safest way to transport a dog. They shouldn’t be loose in the back seat or upfront with their owner.
I’m sure CNC Motors has one of these Mini’s for sale for $120,000
"They have *everything*"
Stupid comment. Not funny.
200 like
beatstork piss off u prick he’s joking u miserable bastard that clearly had no childhood
I mean they literally have a 1989 BMY M931A2
Army Truck 5 Ton 6x6 (A MILITARY VEHICLE) for sale at $25,500. Imagine Doug reviewing that
"There's 3 sunvisors in this car, which is really odd" ...@Doug DeMuro being accidentally literal
I misread that as "3 survivors."
@@OmegaF77 Me too 😂
This car has a niche - if your company has to make deliveries and you want to make a statement this could make business sense. Your clients would remember the vehicle, which they would not do if you were in a regular commercial small van.
In reality the reason they made was that in Europe they could be registered as vans and so would have cheaper taxes. Many small businesses use small vans like this or the Ford Fiesta Van.
@HZB OcYpcWr'Ctwu Odzs gari had a point tho
@@hagglundguy or the vauxhall/Opel Astra van
The badging on the back is just COOP, in memory of the chicken tax placed on the car
Testarossazxc I saw that too
Testarossazxc lmfaooo I didn’t catch that until you said it. That’s hilarious. Good eye!
They had a chance of just callin it mini van
YBNmahir That actually would be a parfait name for this car but since minivan is used for other vans so I can see why this needed to be called differently to distinguish it.
The original version of this vehicle was called that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini#Mini_Van_(1960%E2%80%9383)
the Mini Minivan
@@ODSTOninersIxTwO the mini mini minivan
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The third door is probably how you remove the partition/cage 🤷🏽♂️
Anyone else notice the COOPER was missing the E and R on the back door so it’s actually says COOP
Your comment is one of a trillion saying the same shit
@@__The_Real_V__ ,you get over my comment,twat
LOL! Chicken Coop...er.
Probably what the British would call a "Republican," meaning someone who doesn't want the Queen "Elizabeth Rex (ER)" as head of state any longer. This is supposedly a British car/van, after all.
D..oug delivers
O..verpriced signed photos
U..nder the radar
G..etting around the chicken tax
mm 2018 this needs more likes 👌🏽good work
Good work, top tier shit post
cactus fxr sus
As a Clubman owner, you missed one of the best things about the ambient light toggle switch up top. If you toggle it like a normal switch you get those big color changes, but if you press and hold, it will cycle through the spectrum and gradients and all that fun stuff! You can find all those ambient lights throughout the car and they're in some particularly odd spots too.
Really? Cool! I just bought a clubman, and I'll check that out!
I have a regular mini s convertible I hope it’ll still do this!
Someone:Hey can you help me carry some things?
Doug:Sure lets get my Mini Van.
Doug...the only person to ever use the word “massive” when reviewing a Mini Cooper.
Not a Cooper...
The new MINIs *are* pretty massive compared to the original Austin/BMC/Morris/Leyland/Rover Minis. They're practically the size of a Golf these days.
I have a 2019 clubman & its very spacious
@@phuzz00 I'm surprised BMW got away with releasing a massive speciality coupe in the place of a tiny practical saloon car.
They should have called it the Maxi, but then again that would suggest more than 3 cubic inches of interior space.
"We noticed you like the Mini Clubman. What if we told you we could do a car like that, but it looks worse and has half the windows? ;)"
I'm being facetious. I fjsxking love these videos.
Doug: The Mini Clubvan is the rarest car I've ever reviewed!
Koenigsegg: Am I a joke to you?
Bonzo my thoughts exactly
Wow, still trying this kind of lame ass comment? Originality goes a long way kid
@R A not in the US tho, pretty sure thats a more common car in EU
R A i am sure you mistake it with clubman
@R A It's very rare in Europe too, they sold 1042 in the UK (apparently, this was 'meeting its target'!), that was from 2012-15. In its most popular year, 2013, it sold around 650, which represents just over 1% of all UK Mini sales. To be fair, its a pretty small market, even here, the Corsavan (based on the popular Vauxhall Corsa) sold 1500 in 2012, and would have been much cheaper. They only stopped making it because they replaced the Clubman and obviously it wasn't worth doing again. Lesson here is maybe don't listen to 12 year olds? (A 12 yr old allegedly wrote to Mini to ask them to build it).
I have only ever seen one (discounting ones I saw on a Mini stand).
Doug is the type of guy to bring a water bottle to a fancy restaurant.
With his name on it
I saw this shit once and wanted to laugh so hard
Brings his own chicken to the restaurant, and pays a 25% tax on it.
You should review the Suzuki Jimny 2019 PLEASE DO IT!
Yes
We dont get it in the US so he would have to travel to do it
@@samuels9365 Oh right, thanks for telling me about that
Agreed! I love mine!
I wish me had those here in the US
Who would win:
> 7 Peugeots 207 in 2nd hand
> 1 Mini cooper boi
I would take the mini cooper boi
have a 207, a cool car to drive on B roads
Wtf is your name
207 FTW the handling is actually great
One coopery boi
car derived vans are common in Europe such as the fiesta-van (same concept as this) but i think the clubvan was only sold to coffee shops
Not to mention this type of mini costs as much as an actual medium sized van here in Europe.
Im from Germany and I never saw this car. I see plenty of Minis, but this thing, I would have noticed it
@@neovenom9833 quite a few here in the UK, vans for us are like pickups to the us, I guess the clubvan in about the equivalent to the Honda ridge line
Because it was way too expensive. That kind of car is bought for business purposes, and unless you really want to invest in the "coolness factor" you will buy a much more practical car like a VW Caddy or the like for less than 20.000 Euros.
Oliver Gunn I (in the UK) have never seen one or even heard about it. Kinda surprises me because I notice and shudder every time I see a clubman.
Put some fur on it and call it the updated “Shaggin Waggin”
Mutts Cutz Mark II
Don't forget a mattress
When BMW decided to play a joke on the world..."Mini Clubvan."
WAT XD
The traditional minis had van models
When someone at the BMW board meeting mistook an aprils fool joke as an actual concept idea and just put it into production without further questioning..
lol
@@Real_MisterSir lmaooo 😂
Doug is the type of guy to get into a mini clubvan that says “Free candy” to review its quirks and features
Win
Nicely done.
I find it interesting that at 10:25, the "ER" on "COOPER" is taken off, leaving only "COOP". The only term I can think of that uses "coop" is "chicken coop".
The Mini Clubvan was taken out of the U.S. because of the chicken tax.
Is that a reference, or is the "ER" taken off by random chance?
The Queen took the ER letters for her car and George Clooney is now going to arm wrestle her for them.
I think he said they just fell off with the wear and tear
Doug is the type of guy to put a blanket on his computer when it’s in sleep mode
Why has nobody noticed this gold
Doug the type of guy to make ramen noodles with fiji water
Jordan A as a Fijian-Canadian, I approve.
Jordan A Haaaaah, the DougDemuro comment section always makes my day. Thank you
Philipp Walder that’s what i’m sayin! nothing and i mean NOTHING beats doug’s comment section lmao
Z U you must send our dear friend doug some of your finest H20 then
HAHAHAHA
Looking at the name alone - Clubvan -
It sounds like one of those catchy names that a RUclipsr gives a car after a crazy mod
For example, the Subaru Outfap
Doug is the kinda guy to buy a Mini for 3 million versus an actual Chiron
Using bermudas!
@Joe H leave the better styling out of your comment. ;)
@@Jens_Roadster Joe is right, Minis have better styling inside and out
@@-Sean_ i disagree, but that is my taste. :) I like the old ones before 1990. I just don't like the style.
Mini more cost less, more practical and spacious. So yeah, I'd buy Mini clubvan over Chiron or Veyron.
Crevier BMW : "Doug might pay you a visit"
Crevier Mini : "Gotcha"
CNC Motors: be careful, he's a clinger...
Carmax: i hope to god he doesn’t buy another range rover from us..
Just going to leave this here...
ruclips.net/video/_rwGG759grg/видео.html
Mini Clubvan: "I'm one of only 50 in the US! I'm the rarest car ever!" Cizeta-Moroder V16T: "Hold my beer"
Doug's new trunk size rating system: How many chickens will it hold?
The chickens were cruelty-free until Doug got a hold of them...
@@bendover8250 Not physical cruelty though, it was verbal. Something about a ranking or grading system he was shaming the chickens with.
That would explain why there is a "COOP" badge on the back of this car.
Doug, the type of guy to go through the McDonald’s drive-thru on a Power Wheels.
Such a klazzik
And pay with pennies dimes and nickels
The pink Barbie one too
he only buy kids meal because he
likes the toy gifts
Doug, some other weird or interesting things about the car:
I used to own a Clubman and the rear door pillars are no big deal. I could still see even a Mazda Miata behind me in rush hour traffic.
When opening the rear doors, the tail lights flash and stay on. i guess it's so you can walk to your front door with your arms full of cargo
I think they left the third Club door in because it was cheaper than redoing the body
While on the subject of doors, the MINI is the only car I've ever owned where the doors can be opened 90 degrees! My current car only swings them out to about 80 or so. It's cool looking at the MINI from the front with both doors wide open.
If you push the door lock button on your key fob and HOLD it down, the doors lock and your windows roll up if they weren't fully raised.
One thing that makes no sense is why the tail lights have ONE reverse light and not two. I can't find a single reason for that. Also it makes no sense that the driver side door has a manual keyhole as a backup if your battery died but the passenger side doesn't
The windshield wipers were the worst part of the car. There were only three modes: one sweep every 4 seconds, one sweep every second and fast (about twice the speed). Is the rain not that strong? Sorry, you can't adjust the wiper speed.
A lot of owners had to install an aftermarket brace in the engine bay. It connected to the top of the fenders to keep the body more rigid since it flexed so badly. This made the steering lose alignment very quickly. I was forced to get an alignment subscription because of this issue! Seriously, I paid a one time fee (which was huge but I guess they knew I'd be making a lot of trips) and I got an alignment every month no matter what the mileage was or even if it was my fault (such as sideswiping a curb). In the long run, it was cheaper that way.
This was originally intended as a "woody" wagon for surfers, hence the surfboard roof if viewed from the side. Sadly the woody wagon never made it past the drawing board. I'd LOVE to own one, especially with a surfboard rack which was to come with the car if it was approved for production.
I wish you had shown the a/c vents. When you turn the knob, they "spin" closed like a ship propeller! Very weird. What makes me sad is MINI got rid of these and went to the boring old rectangular "window shutter" design found on 99% of all cars.
If you had the S model Clubman (I've driven both versions) it suffered from the turbo creeping the car to the right! If you stomped on the gas pedal, you had to hold the wheel with both hands or the car would veer off right! I nearly crashed into a curb doing that! And even the Clubman with a turbo 4 cylinder was very fast. As if that wasn't enough, the cars suffered from a different kind of turbo meltdown. They actually melted the hood! The hood is piping hot after pushing the S model hard even during short trips. Many owners sued MINI because of this and demanded a new hood. I have no idea about the outcome of that...
And the weirdest thing about the car: the MINI had a wireless key fob that we all take for granted now. They now work like this: if your key fob is in the car, the door locks will not work. On the MINI, I learned the hard way that the very first generation (which I had) didn't work exactly like that. If you had a Clubman and locked your keys in by accident, the horn sounded, the lights flashed and the REAR door popped open. It was difficult and awkward trying to climb over the seats to get into the cockpit but I was able to get in and grab the key fob.
I can't buy a VW Amarok because of the chicken tax? And the news whines about tariffs AFTER Obama left office...
It's sad that this cool Minivan has an auto. My car had a 6 speed manual and it changes the driving experience. It is always makes cars like the MINI more fun to drive.
Lots of great info! 🎉 Which models/years have the issue that causes alignment problems?
19:38 Doug, but you are just driving a mini with panels on the sides....
Lmao
It is so RARE that Autotrader doesn't even list it in their search.
Yes
I saw a Clubvan parked in my hometown 2 days after watching this video, and freaked out.
Imagine if it was dougs
17:38 "There's a lot of these. It's not really all that special." Two random Minis rolling by.
Wow. That's a big coincidence
@@anabang1251 Not really, since he was near a Mini dealer.
@@no1DdC goes to show people don't think for themselves anymore these days lol.
@@Calyx Are you kidding? I didn't watch the video, I did assume he drove somewhere random and that happened. Even in the case you mentioned: It's not a common occurence
@@anabang1251 so you're saying it's not common to see 2 Mini Coopers close to the largest dealership in the continental US? Are you just trolling at this point?
In the UK it was available as a manual and most buyers went for it.
Apparently 26 available on autotrader atm
and it is fun to drive(used to work at mini),
@@toohottie001 I currently own a mini hatch and love it to bits!
I am the proud owner of 1.6 Manual Clubman in the UK its done 304,000 miles from new and has been bullet proof. Hoping for another 300,000!! Not as rare in the UK but I would say there's less than a thousand. Great little vehicle and the quirks are great. Highly recommend Andy B
Europe: We're taxing your chickens.
America: We're taxing all of your trucks forever.
Europe: 😮
Ain't that the truth
Europe taxed US chickens because they were massively fed with chemicals, a practice uncommon in Europe at that time.
@@robertlee9395 yet Japanese or European cars/trucks built in the USA are generally of inferior quality to Japanese or European cars/trucks built in their home lands, Hell even Canada builds them better... congratulations on getting shittier cars
There are three types of Mini owners:
1. spoiled 20 year old girls sponsored by daddy
2. older (wo)men in their mid-life-crisis
3. really strange guys...
I'm a really strange guy then...
I’ve driven loads of minis and the newer ones are actually really great cars
Thats funny. I often drive my wife's CooperS. She is 47 and I'm a little strange. Still a cool car to drive. Feels fast but actually you get to keep your licence.
I have no chance of being 1, very unlikely to be 2, but I'm thinking of joining the ranks of category 3.
Guys who watched "The Italian Job" and really loved it.
Good review Doug. My wife and I have the 2010 Clubman JCW with all the options. It comes with a cargo net and you can store things under the optional flat load floor ($500). Seriously fun to drive with immense grip, but repairs are costly. Having to learn how to work on these Minis to save money. Thank God for internet how-to videos. We're gluttons for punishment though, as our other car is the 2012 Mini Inspired by Goodwood Bespoke edition.
Doug the type of guy to choose the Fiat Punto as the starter car in Need for Speed Most Wanted
Hey!! I did choose it. I chose one in irl too
It's actually the best handling car in the game (with junkman parts). Near the end of the main career no car can take corners as fast and as predictable as the Fiat Punto... it allows to basically forget about braking on most tracks.
Absolutely no understeer, stupid fast acceleration, lightweight... What else should a perfect racing car be?
Doug the type of guy to get bullied at home school
I came here for the"Chicken Tax" jokes. 🤣
I love how “existence” for Doug Demuro doesn’t span beyond the USA.
U S A
Im here since 150k subscribers and watching from Turkey.
utku şahin good luck with that in the future my friend :D
That's the average American mentality lol
I'm from the Philippines, and have been watching Doug's videos back when he still had 450k Subs
“CAN I PLEASE REVIEW IT???!!!??”
“Uhhh...sure...?
I believe the actual official total in the US is 57 of these. We had one at our dealer, and you could actually get them with a manual transmission but I believe most, if not all were ordered as automatics. We put 18" JCW wheels, some custom graphics, and a surf board rack and sold it soon after.
Doug is the kind of guy to promise his wife a Bugatti Chiron and gift her a 1:20 scaled Lego model
Wow. I never thought I’d see the day when Doug reviews a ClubVan. Good work doug. Edit: damnit doug, don’t expose the secret compartment to non-mini owners
The mini van originally came out before the mini estate (wagon) in the 1960's. It had an 850cc engine
I had one - bought it 2nd hand in 1968. They were cheaper than the estate because there was no sales tax on vans. You could buy a window kit and rear seat and convert it back into an estate, and then pay tax according to its resale value- which for an 8 year old van was counted as 0! The 850 cc engine was rated at 28bhp.
It was the same treatment with the pre-mini, the Morris Minor. They made an estate version called the Morris Traveller, and when the Morris Mini Minor came out, They made an estate version called the Morris Mini Traveller. Fun fact, they replaced the 850cc 4 in the Mini Minor in the early 60s with the 950cc 4, but not in the Mini Traveller. Sorry for the essay.
@@bubbaderp21cringeinitiatio6 Morris Minor was a pre-Mini ?. eh no
@@rabfallon4507 Pre-mini as in cheap people's car, nothing else
It's like a throwback to the original Mini Van. Two words, not one. 2.
I wish Doug had done a bit more research and talked about the Mini's history of Van variants. Back in the 60s and 70s the mini was a platform for lots of different utility vehicles which became super popular for tradespeople working in cities. The original mini van was an icon of it's time. Once you know that it changes the way you look at this car. It's just a shame they half-assed it because the original was pure sheetmetal all the way back.
2013 Cooper owner here, there's a couple more quirks with this era Mini:
- if you hold the ambient light switch for a few seconds, the colors change perpetually!
- the gear selector knob is made to look like a racing helmet!
- the Mini community calls the fuel gauge lights "candy corns"!
- not a quirk, but acceleration is virtually non-existent unless you're in sport mode, especially if the A/C's on!
- also not a quirk, but if Doug took the car on a curvy road he would at least bump the "Fun Factor" score up to a 4!
(and yes, I knew there was a secret compartment on the passenger side dash, its where I hide my microfiber cloth, shhh)
Rear grab handles means extra tie down points.
Also they probably hold the headliner in place.
Doug, it looks like the backseats were just permanently folded down...
The floorline is lower actually
@@vincentlopez2878 Yep, look at 6:44. The floor line is clearly a foot and a half lower. I am surprised that Doug missed this.
I love the Mini. All Mini's from the old ones to the modern versions. I would like to have one as a get around car. (:
I was just looking at Mini Cooper pacemans at carmax hoping Doug would upload the club an video. And here it is. Thank you Doug.
Dont buy a mini, they are unreliable and costly bmw trash these days. A 128i is a far better car with rwd, if you insist on bmw made. So many loved their orig redux mini then had a nightmare with the second purchase.
Fiesta/focus st beat the crap out of minis. That 1.6 fiesta ecoboost is a champ, zero reliability concerns compared to a mini or even the ecoboom 2.3 mustang...and thats in a car that people dont beat on they wail on.
@@TheFreshPeddler But Minis are so quircky... I want to buy one, don't care much about reliability. I just want a fun car, not a regular BMW or Fiesta, oh gosh.
"Totally useless door" you know , unless you remove the totally removable black grill , seems like with a folded seat there'd be plenty of room to load over that 7 in tall metal lip
Max Welsh in Europe you couldnt remove it because of the law, Idk about USA
I'm not sure that that is true , it may be some sort of insurance regulation or a law if you're actually carrying cargo for a business I will give you the benefit of the doubt, certainly in America it is indeed legal, but none the less Doug makes it clear it is in fact removable by saying it's removable .
I don't know about the newest models but I rarely saw such a cargo fence in the Vans I've seen throughout my life
Fun fact about the central speedometer: if your head unit breaks (like mine), it's quoted at around $1,600 to fix because of how it's made and integrated into the dial. In order to replace it you need to take the whole dash apart and rewire everything and the original stereos are apparently pretty expensive and there's several different radio options and change depending on the cd changer (which is built even farther down into the center console) and a bunch of other shit.
This would make a great, albeit tiny, pop-top camper. Make the pop top tall enough so you could stand, or almost stand up in the back. Pop top could have a small bed in it and a mini-mini fridge, tiny propane burner, sink and fold out seating down below. Totally ridiculous idea but I think it would be cool for very short camping stints at a racetrack or something.
These will be worth millions in a few years. Especially the ones with that service light on.
Barrett Jackson: Next up, a 20 year old, one of fifty Mini Clubvan survivors.
I've got 150k now 200 250 300...
Lmfao!
I mean it is available in the rest of the world just fine. Are there people that are so insanely patriotic that they will pay that much money for a car simply because it was officially imported? Just buy one from Europe for $10.000. If you are that desperate for a crappy van I think you can afford the chicken tax.
Mini dealership: so uh... what kind of minicooper do you want to re-
Doug: oooo whats that a minicooper van can i review it?
Dealership: ummmmm.... i guess??
Jesus Saldivar i mean its very rare so i would want to as well
Some random woman: Doug, am I pretty?
Doug: For more of my thoughts on that woman go to autotrader.com/oversteer
The engine is the 1.6 VTi Peugeot/Citroën unit. Here in the UK it is VERY rare too. We also get the Cooper D, powered by a 1.6 diesel with 95 bhp.
@R A There are less than 1000 on the road! To compare, there are 750,000 Mini's on the road, there are over 3000 Lamborghini's, almost 2000 McLarens, and over 10,000 Ferrari's! These are incredibly rare!!!
rare? ive seen some second hand for like 8k, thats not rare
J.Hunter Since when did price have anything to do with rarity? Anyway, £8,000 is a fair bit for a 5-7 year old vehicle.
@@bensmith563 true, but still, attainable, its not like a 10 million ferrari you know
J.Hunter When did I compare it to one?
IM dying. i can just imagine doug coming up to the manager all wide eyed like "can i pleasEEEEEEE review it" lol and then he said and here we are lol
I think the chicken tax caused the emblem to become COOP.
So glad I found your comment. You're one of only a few who caught that tidbit.
I was going to make the comment but figured somebody else spotted that - either that's a coincidence (probably not) or intentional but it is HILARIOUS (especially just after he talks about - it comes up in the video like that, LOL!).
Haven't seen one in the Netherlands at all, but the small van form factor is more common here in Europe.
*HAPPY Doug DeMuro Day everyone!*
Oh, you didn't know today is International Doug DeMuro Day? Well now you do. ;)
every day is the international doug de mouro day
Mini ClubVan - Getting sun-visors right. So many companies and cars get them wrong.
Saab also had the sun visor game right. My Saab 9-5 (2002) has double visors.
Hi Doug - just wanted to raise the point that with a full cargo, you wouldn't be able to see out of the back door - most van drivers wouldn't even use that rear view mirror due to most vans not having one. I've driven vans enough that I don't even use them in cars with full visibility out of the rear windscreen, and as such I tend to remove the rear view mirror to gain better visibility through the front. It's amazing just how much extra visibility you get this way.... Keep on keeping on pal, love your work.
Doug... where is my signed photo? I bought it a month ago.
hope u know it's not gonna be worth money or anything, the $40 you paid for it is literally just a donation to him for a photo of a car and his name stamped.
Sending it late or not sending it at all is a quirk
Is he backed up on signed photo orders!?! lol
A fool and his money
@@fuckelonmusk9395 what do you have against Elon Musk?
The rear doors say "mini coop" with "er" missing lol
You should review more vans! They have many "quirks and features" as you would say
You should get your hands on a Triumph spitfire.
I'd like to see that.
14:48 dang Doug you need jergins lotion for those knees🤣🤭
Charlie Kelly: cover up your knees if you're gonna walk around
Forget shirts. Doug Demuro is the type of guy to wear the same shorts in almost every review
Abbi Ravindhran they should make Doug DeMuro RUclips video shorts, and make them weird and quirky.
The last time I was this early Williams wasn’t bad at Formula One
Uhhh bad burn!
Ooof
You should try and review a 1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am convertible.
Ram Air Four.
“Which I’ve rented using a service called Turo...”
Zack Attack on his second channel he said he doesn’t usually review classic cars unless it’s classic exotics
@@dilburger6902 Exactly. He's done a few regular classics, like the VW Thing, and it was obvious he has no appreciation or knowledge of older non-exotic cars.
@TGF 2005 I'm pretty sure he doesn, but there's not enough people who watch those videos so he's not making them, sadly.
I work for a Mini dealership in the UK and only ever seen 2 of these. With regards to the Cooper S version, It was only available with the 1.6 (N16, Nuturoisly unreliable) petrol or the N47 Diesel (Also very unreliable).
One of our customers has converted his to JCW Bumpers, Trims and alloys and has all the spec on it and it would make for a very cool little work van
They probably thought business would put their own vinyls with their logos, so did not worry about the quality of those.
which they did, as to be seen if you search for pictures on google.
This is a Ideal van to make the world's smallest Camper Van. Add a popup roof and your ready to go solo camping😊
Just give it a turbocharged V-6 and it will be great
You just have to sleep standing up!
There's a video of a lady that sleeps in her smart car
SP392 / yep! There are thousands of people in all countries sleepping in their cars but that's not camping, that's just survival. One step above sleeping on the ground I hate to say😔
@@NewAgeDIY The van dwellers make it look pretty fun. Personally I think it would be fun for a month or so traveling around, but I couldn't do it full time like those guys.