MINI One doors if the windup windows weigh less.

Old Fashioned side mirrors (no electric adjustment)

AC delete option

No Radio (maybe a powersource for them that got to have it).

No rear seat.

No noise insulation.

Removable carpets

No sound deading in doors and body

Motor as released (I would like more power but want to stay with in the cost rules and will defer to MINI enginers.) With lighter weight flywheel than stock if possible.

Forged 17″ wheels (16×7 or 7.5″ if they can be made to fit over the brakes).

No runflats tires and maybe R compound tires (like the Lotus sport package)

tunable suspension.

and the parts that everyone will hate …

Exhaust exiting like MC but with larger dia pipe from cat back. More efficent cat and headers if possible. I know they exist but do not know if they can be worked into the cost structure and allowed in the various markets the car is sold in.

Choice of gear ratios

a beefed up 5 speed trans (the 6 speed has 2 overdirve gears. To much weight.)

John

With something going on at Bertone, and if the JCW GP is that something, then that’s alot of assembly line set-up for not alot of modifications to the base MCS JCW…

‘Just a thought.

No frills, all go. For the street. That is all.

Holy Toledo! If you are a real boy or girl, then I choose surreality. If you consider this a work of art, well, um… let’s just say I know of a few Elvis portraits on black velvet priced in the low three figures that you might find interesting.

I really do not think that kind of comment is called for.

Under 30k? With JCW and extensive CF? Go back to your half baked after market world and leave the real toys for the real girls and boys.

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/843287

For example, some people referred to aluminum- or CF-skinned roofs – why not take a sunroofed car, delete the mechanicals and glass, and replace with aluminum or CF inserts? Minimal cost there.

Raid the parts bin for the JCW performance stuff, tweak the DSC, make LSD standard – MINI already has that stuff. Combine with a full delete list – no rear seat bottoms or backs or belts, no AC, no radio, no speakers, no rear wiper, no sound deadening, less dash/console plastics, etc etc etc – and you’re getting somewhere.

Now we’ve got a good platform to start adding or modifying to make exclusive. I think MINI went the other way round, coming up with exclusive items/schemes first and then trying to work in the performance aspect.

But they didn’t do this at all… they created some ridiculously overwrought new exterior trim pieces and silly big wheels. If you read through the suggestions above, there are many great ideas for using what they already have with very minor additions (and deletions). IMO they just screwed this one up. Period.

Is it going to be a “killer car”…NO Is it going to have more “style than go”….PROBABLY; but that doesn’t mean they aren’t on the right path.

What I and about 2,000 other potential owners are searching for is a more coheasive effort in formulating what is addmittedly a “marketing special”. It’s a little lighter, it has a few more HP than a normal JCW package. And it’s not too late to make changes like better integration of some of the parts…and maybe come up with some new stuff like different wheels. But rest assured that MINI is not going to go to great lengths to certify a car in all their world markets for this GP, especially since this model variant is soon to be history.

I think MINI IS listening since in England the dealers are calling “listed” purchasers, asking them to increase their deposits up to 1,000 Pounds Sterling. I think they’re a little nervous after reading all the negative comments on mini2 and Motoringfile.

So, give your feedback to GAbe and hope for the best…but don’t expect they can do it all.