This bit of info came directly from MINIUSA was posted on North American Motoring. It's actually in regards to a (rather odd) rumor that MINIUSA was going to release something similar to a JCW kit for the CVT Cooper.
So according to MINIUSA here's the reasoning why the US will never see the John Cooper Works kit for the MINI Cooper:
- It doesn't make economic sense to bring the JCW COOPER kit to the U.S.
- The cost of the JCW COOPER kit (without installation) would be nearly as much as the $3000 price difference to get the COOPER S, while producing significantly less power than a COOPER S (COOPER = 115 HP, JCW COOPER = 130 HP, COOPER S = 163 HP)
- The JCW COOPER kit does not work on the CVT.
For those that don't know much about the John Cooper Work tuning kit for the Cooper here's a bit of information from their site: (PDF)
None of this is really new information, and I think it's been assumed for some time by most of us, but it's nice to see it come directly from MINIUSA. A big thanks to Mark Ferguson at NAM for getting this info from the source.
<p>Acording to the <a href="mailto:info@johncooper.co.uk">info@johncooper.co.uk</a> e-mail The Works kit for Cooper is exactly the same be it manual or CVT.</p>
<p>There are Works CVT's in the UK. There isn't a Special kit for the CVT, its the same one for both cooper versions.</p>