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Cargo capacity is not the Mini’s strong point. Open the hatch and there’s enough room behind the rear seats for a day’s worth of groceries, or maybe a gym bag or two. Anything more than that and you’ll need to fold down the seatbacks. It’s easy enough, with handles on the tops of the seatbacks, but the resulting load floor isn’t flat; the seatbacks are a good eight inches higher than the rearmost cargo area. The liftover is low at least, and you can get a decent amount of cargo in with the seats folded, but the Mini clearly wants to play, not work.
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