[Tim in Scotland]

I’ve never looked on the Mini Approved Used website before, but in the UK there are a lot of low miles, and some pre-reg PHEVs for sale at the moment if you don’t want to wait in the long line for a factory ordered car
https://approvedusedminis.co.uk/result/?model=COUNTRYMAN&page=1&source=home&trim=PHEV

 

[Tim in Scotland]

I don’t know why but Black and Grey seem to be really popular colours............ I would never buy a black car, they are just so much hassle to keep looking good (and they are the colour that really only funeral directors would like....) The other thing with some of the grey shades is they are almost a perfect match to the plastic trims on wheel arches and bumpers and JLR’s Stornoway Grey and Corris Grey exactly matched the plastic trim bits so you got colour coding from the factory for free!
Must admit that I have owned a few metallic grey cars over the years for exactly the opposite reason why I won’t have a black one - they don’t show the road dirt for weeks and weeks. Reds fade too much even today and blue and green seem to be out of favour (I you look at Land Rovers configurator for the Evoque , Range Rover and Range Rover Sport there are white, metallic red, black or about 8 different shades of grey unless you start paying £3500 to £7000 extra for a “premium” metallic yet Jaguar (same company AND some of the cars are built on the Land Rover lines at Solihull) offers blues and greens. My Defender is a dark metallic green. My PHEV is Melting Silver, which isn’t silver at all, it’s more a very pale willowy green!

 

[Tim in Scotland]

I like it, it is easy to keep clean as it does show road dirt too much, I would not have a black roof again as on the few sunny/hot days we get it heats up the interior a lot which then causes the battery cooler to cut in when parked up, increasing electric consumption. I also have the panoramic roof and there is an issue with the cheap and nasty brittle fibreboard shades - no matter if they are open or closed they rattle - so far the only fault I can find with my car! I also saw the one with the yellow mirror caps and agree they look good but what roof colour would go best as body coloured roof might not work so well in Melting Silver
A neighbour has a Thunder Grey 3 door Cooper D with a white roof and mirror caps and that is nice combination. Such a pity that so far the 2019 rich Metallic Blue hasn’t made it to the Countryman as I love that colour. If you cannot find a colour that you like then have you considered finding a price/spec compromise you like and then getting the car wrapped in a colour you prefer?

 

[Tim in Scotland]

My heavily optioned PHEV built May 2018 doesn’t have them either.