An excerpt from David E Davis' monthly column from Automobile Magazine:

…All of this was running through my head as I tore home in a MINI Cooper S (with the John Cooper Works tuning kit) one Friday night. This latest iteration of the MINI is simply brilliant, and every American male between the ages of sixteen and one hundred and sixteen should drop everything and drive one. if it has any drawback or shortcoming, it might be the very real possibility that you could have so much illicit fun with it that you just might wind up in prison for life. Just about the time you're halfway through third gear, with three gears left to go, you are struck with the truth of the old engineering maxim, “Low mass is its own reward”

This issue also features some positive comments regarding the long term MCS that Automobile currently has in it's fleet.