THE Mini Clubman is aimed straight at people who love the standard Mini, but find it just too hard to live with. Stretched by 244mm and adding 77.5mm extra legroom and 16mm more headroom for rear passengers, the Clubman can carry four people in comfort. With 50/50-split folding seats that open up 930 litres of space, the Mini Clubman shapes as a reasonably practical choice. It only has one door for the rear passengers though, a rear-hinged door one on the right-hand (road) side. The Clubman’s rear ‘barn doors’ hark back to the Mini Clubman Estate and Austin Mini Clubman that sold from 1960 to 1982 and also enable the new Clubman to stand out from regular Minis. Clubman models attract a premium of around $3300 over their hard-top equivalents, and employ the same mechanicals including an 88kW 1.6-litre four-cylinder and a turbocharged version packing 128kW.