Now You Can Go Camping On The Roof Of Your Mini Countryman

Believe it or not, a specialist Italian company has launched a roof-top tent compatible with the Mini Countryman, allowing two people to sleep in a relative approximation of comfort
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.

Image: Autohome
Image: Autohome

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.

The awkwardly-named 2013 Mini Countryman Camp
The awkwardly-named 2013 Mini Countryman Camp

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…

Comments

Joshua Lue

Making your mini…… even less mini (literally)

05/03/2017 - 09:13 |
14 | 2

Yup. Now, it’s just a name. Funny since they still look (kinda) small, but once you walk up to one…

05/04/2017 - 01:41 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

This face makes me think that the Countryman is like, “Sigh, can we not go camping next time?”

05/03/2017 - 09:13 |
102 | 0
BV86_OFISHAL (AUDM Fanboy)

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

He doesn’t like camping either.

05/03/2017 - 10:37 |
46 | 0
Freddie Skeates

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

05/03/2017 - 09:18 |
6 | 0
BV86_OFISHAL (AUDM Fanboy)

But can a Countryman have three storeys? And a pot plant?

05/03/2017 - 09:24 |
198 | 2

And down force so high that the front lifts up.

05/03/2017 - 16:57 |
18 | 0

And a Jeremy Clarkson?!

05/03/2017 - 22:51 |
8 | 0
TheBeetleGuy

“You can sleep in a car, but you can’t drive a house”

05/03/2017 - 09:25 |
20 | 0
Anonymous

At this point the Mini Countryman should just be renamed to the Big Countryman, cause it isn’t exactly what you’d call ‘mini’…

05/03/2017 - 09:26 |
22 | 0
HCR Writing Space

That’s another option if you don’t want a caravan

05/03/2017 - 10:04 |
4 | 2
DL🏁

You know what, I think its actually quite cool

05/03/2017 - 10:15 |
6 | 2
Bolt-On Ricer

Why, just why

05/03/2017 - 10:26 |
2 | 2
Anonymous

Pretty much

05/03/2017 - 10:28 |
38 | 2

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