Mini Clubman closes Split Doors for the last time

After 1.1 million units built in 55 years, it is officially over for the Mini Clubman. The very last copy of the latest generation Mini Clubman was built this week at the Mini factory in Oxford. Of course, those 1.1 million copies are not all Clubmans from the last two generations.

Clubman at Mini was originally the name for the updated version of the then current Mini, the well-known model with the striking angular snout, which was pushed onto the scene in the 1970s. Under the wings of the BMW Group, the Clubman designation returned in 2007 on a unique ‘station version’ of the then current Minis. The Mini Clubman received what Mini called its ‘split doors’: small rear doors that provided access to the luggage compartment, as if they were salon doors. More doorman fun came in the form of small ones suicide doors for the rear passengers.

In 2015, the Mini Clubman, which was brought back in 2007, was succeeded by a model that also came with split doors was endowed, but had to do without the stubborn rear doors. Instead, the Clubman received conventional rear doors. In addition, the last Clubman was a good 30 centimeters longer than its predecessor. In total, more than 550,000 copies of the last two generations of Mini Clubman were built under BMW’s management. Of these, 8,841 copies are registered in the Netherlands. As far as we know, Mini does not have a new Clubman in the pipeline.