Mini Experience Modes Explained - 2025 Mini Countryman S

All right, so let's get into these mini experiences because it's sort of at the center of the vehicle now

So we'll start at the top and we're going down. So first you have go-kart, which is pretty self-explanatory

This is the sportiest setting. It stiffens up the steering, makes the accelerator a little more responsive, and gives the engine a bit more growl

Here, listen to this. Nice little growl. And then next we have core, which is sort of the default that makes a noise too

It basically relaxes all the controls, puts them nice and smooth. Everything's in comfort

The lighting's not intense or that bright. A steering wheel is a little lighter

Acceleration response is a little lighter. It's just sort of the figure out for cruise mode

Next up, we have green mode. It's noise. So this is about efficiency which it says right on the screen we turn it on There a bonus range tracker about how much fuel you saving as you drive There other things telling you how your efficiency is going

It has some green lighting to go with the green mode. And the engine sounds reduced

Well, you know, not engine sound. The sound, the car is producing through the speakers as the engine sound

Not to say the engine is completely silent. It does make noise, but you know what I'm getting at. Next is Vivid

Here's its noise. So Vivid's. kind of cool. As the name suggests, it's all about being bright and sort of in your face

So it defaults to whatever you're listening to through the audio system. So if you're using a phone

a streaming service, satellite radio, whatever. And if there's cover art to go with the song

you're listening to, the screen will actually adjust its colors as well of the projections to

incorporate the main colors of that art. So it's usually a sort of mauve color to begin with

but then other sections will highlight into greens or blues or yellows or reds or whatever is on the album cover

It a bit of a gimmick but again this is a very youthful fun vehicle inside and this is something I think they appreciate I not a youth I still think it cool though So next we have timeless Here its noise

A little delay there, but it came. So timeless is sort of what it makes it sound like

It defaults to the gauge screen, which has some old-school-looking letters and numbers and gauges to sort of mimic the original minis

It's pretty cool. Other than that, it doesn't really change how the vehicle performs, but the, you know

The engine note, mini claims it's a mixture of a 1959 mini with the first modern JCW

which would be sort of the mid-2000s mini. Here, have a listen

It's hard to kind of pick the two sounds out, but it does have a bit of a growl, so cool

So then we go to balance. Here's its noise. Oh, how serene

So it is supposed to just add some balance. to how the car is So if you have the massage seat equipped it turn that on the lighting will get reduced it play soothing sounds through the speakers as you dry faintly It just to kind of calm you which is kind of funny because it should be called calm not balance but whatever And finally we have trail mode

As you can hear, it's a very jungle sort of sound to it. That's because this is the SUV

mini and it is the all four. So I get it. It's not really an off-roader. It doesn't really do

anything to the vehicle either other than change the lighting motif to apparently make you feel

you more adventurous side. I mean, this potentially is one of the most gimmicky one of the experiences

but I guess it's all about setting your mood and it's just fun to play with. And that's what people

want nowadays with technology. They want customizable, adjustable whatever's or we're the smartphone

generation. Well, I'm not, but you know, I guess I am. We're all smartphone obsessed. I mean

even people in their 80s down to 6 or all over their smartphones