One of our favorite magazines has an update on it’s long term 2007 MCS. Here’s an excerpt:

>OK, it is much bigger than the original Issigonis design (what isn’t?), but with the middle-age spread comes real refinement and superb long-distance capability. Dickie Meaden recently drove ours to the Nürburgring, where he was doing one of his VLN races with Aston Martin (they were all out of Vanquish S press cars), and he loved it. ‘Brilliant on the autobahns,’ he reckoned. ‘Really quick, comfortable and it did well over 30mpg despite averaging over 100mph.’ How quick? ‘Well, the speedo showed 147mph at one point.’ Not bad for a 172bhp hatch…

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[ MINI Cooper S Long Term ] EVO