Driving.Ca Reviews the MINI John Cooper Works
Expect to see a rush of more factory JCW reviews as the car begins to hit the streets of North America and Europe in the coming weeks. Here is a more favorable review of the factory JCW MINI coming from our friends north of the border at Driving.Ca.
Some notable excerpts:
>”This feeling of performing beyond its dimensions, engine size and heft is endemic to this the sportiest of Minis. Immediately after picking it up, I found myself cruising at 160 km/h, so quiet was the cabin and stable the ride. Considering the penalty for such flagrant flouting of Ontario’s speed limits, I, again, hoped that the JCW’s speedometer was indeed optimistic.”
And another…
>”To be 100% truthful, I didn’t think I’d like the new JCW. You see, I’m truly enamoured of the first-generation version. It’s a wicked little piece, its supercharged, 1.6-litre fourbanger blatting out big horsepower for its small size and making the most delicious supercharger whine. It’s a raucous beast that makes driving fun and, well, I thought the new turbocharged version of the JCW would be just a little too civilized.
>Indeed, the motor is much smoother. Where the old one is rough, thenew direct-injection four — still displacing 1.6 litres — is relatively quiet and much more sophisticated. Where the original roars, its successor just purrs.”
First Drive: MINI JCW / Driving.Ca
Never been a fan of BRG, sorry, but that BRG/Blk pic in the article at driving.ca is sweet.
Huh??? Not sure what the beginning ref to Honest John was about?
The only article I could find at HonestJohn.com was his article from back in July of this year. Is that what your referring to?
Classic BRG is not a metallic color. I wish they would either make it non-metallic or rename it. MINI BRG is not BRG & it doesn’t look right. Ask Aston-Martin or Jaguar about it.
A decent review, not the best I’ve read but he does a pretty good job expressing his view.
Still more than 20′ away I would look at this car, then right past it to the next Mini in line without ever stopping to consider it anything special visually speaking. Different strokes for different folks though I guess, though making a car that more or less is identical to another seems to be a clumsy move at best for advertising the car.
As tested $42,020, I think BMW is on drugs. another overpriced car.
As stated above “Still more than 20′ away I would look at this car, then right past it to the next Mini in line without ever stopping to consider it anything special visually speaking”
That’s $42,020 Canadian you hoser. That’s like a hunerd bucks Amercan eh?
Thanks for your expert correction!