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What 5 owners told NHTSA about the 2020 Mini Cooper S Paceman

These are the actual owner complaints behind this car’s reliability verdict, filed with the federal government, unedited. They’re unverified reports, not confirmed defects: read them as leads for your pre-purchase inspection, not a diagnosis.

All (5)Crash / fire / injury (1)Engine (2)Brakes (1)Electrical system (1)Speed control (1)Steering (1)Visibility & wipers (1)Wheels (1)

1 of 5 complaints match · Brakes · crash/fire/injury only · clear filters

Jun 25, 2025Speed controlBrakesEngineCrash1 injury

I was pulling into a parking spot slowly and all of the sudden the car took off and took off and I couldn’t stop and when I tried to sped hard on the break it wouldn’t work and I lost control and my car wouldn’t stop until it crashed into another vehicle that was sitting in another parking spot.

NHTSA ODI 11669081

Working with the data? Download all 5 complaints as CSV · fetched from NHTSA July 27, 2026

How to use these: a complaint is one owner’s report, filed voluntarily and published unverified. Patterns matter more than any single story. If several owners describe the same failure at similar mileage, put that system at the top of your pre-purchase inspection list. Back to the full 2020 Mini Cooper S Paceman verdict →