EVO Magazine Drives the R56 JCW
EVO (for years one of our two favorite car mags at MF) got its hands on a 2007 MINI Cooper S with the newly released JCW kit. While we’ve featured three owner reviews (including my own) on these pages over the last few months. To my knowledge this is among the first of the reviews done by a general automotive publication. The conclusion? Let’s just say the always hard to please Evo staff seemed to be won over. Here’s an excerpt:
>I had a hunch it’d be quick on the track as well, and couldn’t resist sneaking over to the Bedford Autodrome to find out. The times are unofficial, as I didn’t have the requisite passenger and full tank of fuel, but the Works went considerably faster than any MINI we’ve timed before. In fact it went faster than every other hot hatch, too.
The full review isn’t online yet but it can be found in the November edition of EVO.
PDF the article please!
No news here! After one week of sub 4500 rpm driving (not broken in yet)I am amazed at how much better in every way this car is compared to my ’05 JCW. A bargain at $2100. Ditto for the JCW suspension.
The car must be amazing!!!
The November issue of UK magazine Car also features the R56 JCW as part of it’s feature on the “13 latest and greatest sports cars of the year”. It doesn’t fare as well on the track, but the one they have doesn’t have LSD.
This has me really wondering what to do when replacing my 2003 MCS. I had thought to get a 2006 JCW and keep the supercharger, but this report puts a lot of questions in my mind. . . .
Well if you want better low end response and speed out of the turns then look no further. If you also want something fatser than an R53 with JCW Tuning don’t let the R56 smack you right in the face.