The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants

Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin Consider the dressing room. The concept began its mass-market life as an amenity in Gilded Age department stores, a commercial sanctuary of pedestals and upholstered furniture on which to swoon over the splendid future of your wardrobe. Now, unless you’re rich enough to sip gratis champagne in the apartment-size private […]

Mini’s new Countryman hybrid is hobbled by too-small a battery

Enlarge (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Earlier this year, we tried out the new Mini Countryman and came away impressed. The little crossover combined the driving feel of its smaller siblings with practicality like usable back seats and better cargo capacity. The one we really wanted to try—the Cooper S E Countryman ALL4 plug-in hybrid EV version—wasn’t available […]