On its fat-tyred 17in alloys, this car rode better than any Mini I’ve driven bar a saucer-wheeled first-gen Cooper, soaking up the worst of pothole ... S and Cooper D models, and it’s a ...

First known as the Mini Cooper, the car was later called the Hardtop ... The third-generation Mini Hardtop that debuted for the 2014 model year wasn’t quite as “mini;” it was 4.5 inches ...