World Premier: JCW Pack & 2011 JCW Tuning Kit
Much like the M Sport packages from BMW M that’s offered on non M cars, JCW now has a ‘Pack” for non JCW models. The JCW Pack consists of the:
– JCW aerokit
– Challenge spoke wheels
– Dynamic Traction Control (DTC)
– Electronic Differential Lock Control (EDLC)
– Entry strips
– Sport steering wheel with red stitching
But also importantly this signals the first time the JCW aerokit has been available from the factory. So that means JCW cars can now opt for this package to get the full look.
In other JCW news MINI has officially released the update tuning kit for the Cooper S. HP is up to 200 (in UK trim) and torque remains at 199 lb-ft of torque due to the clutch and transmission not being rated for higher numbers. As before the tuning kit comes with an updated intake, exhaust and software.
Finally JCW has released a new 18″ wheel for the R55, R56 and R57. The Cross Spoke Red Stripe (photo after the break) fits well within JCW’s new black and red motif and is the best looking JCW wheel (outside of the new R60 19″ wheels)we’ve ever seen from the brand. Official release and photos after the break.
Official Release: A John Cooper Works Pack has now been developed for the MINI and MINI Convertible, offering components that give the cars a head-turning sporting allure – both technically and stylistically. The model-specific interior and exterior components optimise the handling of the MINI and ensure it delivers an impressive visual impact. The John Cooper Works Pack is due to be available from the second quarter of 2011 as a factory-fit option.
Key to giving the cars fitted with the John Cooper Works Pack their imposing appearance is the aerodynamics package, which lends the front, rear and flanks of the MINI and MINI Convertible an undeniably sporting flavour. The black border around the lower part of the body is highlighted particularly clearly at the front and rear by a centrally positioned indentation. The inner section of the surrounds for the positioning lights or foglamps on the outer edges of the front apron feature horizontal slats. Plus, the radiator grille has the same honeycomb structure as the lower air intake. The side skirts continue the dynamic thread, curving inwards with a sweeping flourish and adding a stylised opening at the rear. As part of the aerodynamics package features, the powerfully formed rear apron includes prominent cut-outs at its outer edges which mimic the appearance of the positioning light and foglamp surrounds integrated into the front apron.
The 17-inch weight-optimised light-alloy wheels in John Cooper Works Cross Spoke CHALLENGE design ensure the best possible contact with the road. Moreover, the John Cooper Works Pack comes with the traction mode DTC (Dynamic Traction Control) added to the standard-fitted stability system DSC (Dynamic Stability Control), as well as EDLC (Electronic Differential Lock Control) – the electronically controlled locking function for the driven axle differential. DTC mode, which is activated at the touch of a button, raises the intervention thresholds of the stability control technology, making it easier to pull away on loose sand or snow with a degree of wheel spin. The system also allows controllable slip through the driven wheels under particularly sporty cornering. The EDLC system assists a sporty driving style when accelerating out of corners and sharp bends. In tight corners it brakes a spinning driven wheel as required to enhance the car’s traction without adversely affecting its self-steering properties. And that allows the driver to feed the car through corners more smoothly, as well as at greater speed.
The interior components included in the John Cooper Works Pack also play their part in creating a full-blooded driving experience. These include John Cooper Works door entry strips and the John Cooper Works sports leather steering wheel with red contrast stitching. Cars with a manual gearbox are also kitted out with a John Cooper Works gearshift lever with red shift pattern lettering and a leather gaiter with red contrast stitching. Customers specifying a manual gearbox will also find the handbrake gaiter featuring red contrast stitching.
The John Cooper Works Pack is available for all engine variants of the MINI and MINI Convertible and can be combined with eight body colours. The aerodynamics package included as part of the John Cooper Works Pack can also be ordered on its own for the MINI John Cooper Works and MINI John Cooper Works Convertible.
Exclusive to the MINI Cooper S: John Cooper Works Tuning Kit.
The selection of John Cooper Works retrofit options will also welcome some attractive new additions in spring 2011. Customers keen to sample the sporting driving experience in the MINI Cooper S, MINI Cooper S Clubman or MINI Cooper S Convertible in an even more focused form will be able to order their cars with the John Cooper Works Tuning Kit. Performance-optimised engine management and a specifically designed air filter system enable the twin-scroll turbo engine to develop even greater power. Indeed, the maximum output of the four-cylinder unit rises another 12 kW to 147 kW/200 hp at 5,700 rpm. Plus, the driver can call on maximum torque of 250 Nm (184 lb-ft) between 1,250 and 5,000 rpm when some seriously forceful acceleration is required – and this can be raised to as much as 270 Nm (199 lb-ft) between 1,800 and 5,000 rpm courtesy of the Overboost function. All of which means that the MINI Cooper S can sprint from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 6.8 seconds and record a top speed of 234 km/h (145 mph).
The John Cooper Works Tuning Kit includes a model-specific sports silencer with chrome tailpipes, which optimises the exhaust gas discharge and gives the engine sound a particularly sporting note. It is available for retrofitting on all relevant models with manual gearbox produced since March 2010. It meets the MINI brand’s high standards of quality and safety in terms of both design and engineering and is retrofitted, like all John Cooper Works accessories components, by authorised MINI Service Partners. This means that the car’s warranty will remain unaffected.
Another new addition to the John Cooper Works accessories range is the 18-inch Cross Spoke Red Stripe light-alloy wheel variant, which will also be available from spring 2011. The black wheel features the innovative addition of a red trim strip on the wheel rim. This high-quality marking is produced by means of a special painting process, and the colour tone is identical to the red of the painted John Cooper Works brake callipers.
<blockquote>The black wheel features the innovative addition of a red trim strip on the wheel rim.</blockquote>
<p>Yes, that red trim strip is quite innovative. That is not something you see every day on countless riced out Hondas. Oh wait. Actually it was, for about a year. Until it quickly fell out of fashion with that crowd around 2007.</p>
<p><a href="http://forums.importtuner.com/70/6344665/cage-fight/anyone-sick-of-time-attack-wheels/index.html" rel="nofollow">Thread from Import Tuner 7/2007</a></p>
<p>Good move on MINI’s part to offer something similar to the ///M sport packages. Now if they would finally work on bringing the factory jcw up the the level you expect to see a ///M developed car to have.</p>
<p>I personally wish that the JCW pack was NOT available. In my opinion, the letters JCW (should) stand for one thing; increased performance. If you have this new JCW pack, but your engine and performance have not been enhanced, you’re car is a poser. A phony. A fake.</p>
<p>The JCW bits should only be offered as part of a true, all-out JCW MINI, (which should also include the engine upgrades, the brake upgrades AND suspension upgrades).</p>
<p>Does this make for a MINI that is just too expensive for the masses? Yes, and in my opinion, that is a good thing.</p>
<p>In my idealistic world, the JCW should be to MINI, what the GT3 is to Porsche. No compromises, and no worries about budget. Then, when you see a JCW car, it’ll be a rare, special experience. Even moreso if you can afford to buy one yourself.</p>
<p>You’re =?your</p>
<p>Also there is a MINI like that. It is called JCW GP.</p>
<p>So I have a JCW waiting for me at the dealership. They’re going to paint the JCW aero kit and put it on for some huge amount of money. But if I had waited, I’d be able to get it from the factory for way less money???</p>
<p>Also fully agree it should be about performance…but with the Msport BMWs and GrandSport Corvette…it’s all an image game for those not willing or able to make the real step up. Sad.</p>
<p>Wait, so they will offer a factory installed JCW aero kit on a non-JCW car, but still can’t order it on an actual JCW car? Anyone else see something wrong with this?</p>
<p>Finger crossed that it will also become available as a factory option (or better yet make it standard) on the actual JCW cars.</p>
<p>Oops, disregard my last comment, I see that it will be available on all variants, including the actual JCW. Good news indeed!</p>
<p>My big question is U.S. Market Availability? Will we get this?</p>
<p>Why are they calling the Challenge wheels light? They’re like 23 lbs!</p>
<p>This does sound like a good move considering the R56 is nearing the end of its life cycle and would be good for those of us who would like to have a factory installed JCW aero kit. As long as pricing is cheaper as a bundle, it sounds good to me.</p>
<p>Pooh on this! One reason I traded in my ’09 JCW for an ’11 was for the “JCW exclusive” bits, i.e. steering wheel/boot stitching, red roof/mirrors, red interior trim, etc. Now someone can deck out a base Cooper with the same cosmetics, whatever “exclusivity” I had is gone now.</p>
<p>How lame a 120HP Cooper can look just like the one some poor guy shelled out serious cabage for so he could have something exclusive.</p>
<p>If the tuning kit is still $2000 that’s a bargain as opposed to dropping $6k for 211. Of course you get the brakes and LSD and the wheels. But what a nice retro fit.</p>
<p>It’s ridiculous that the S got such a nice (9) HP boost but the JCW didn’t.</p>
<p>and what’s with the 0-62 time of 6.8 seconds? That cannot be correct. The published 0-60 time for the S is 6.7 so even if you shave off a couple ticks for 0-60 you’re looking at 6.6 seconds. What’s with car manufactuers and the ultra conservative statements.</p>
<p>So wait, people buy JCW’s now so other people can look and say “my what deep pockets you have?”
Are people who own 135i’s going to be called posers if they have bits and pieces of the M sports package on their car, but it’s not a 1M?
Chillax on the “poser” comments because someone has an S with a JCW bodykit. They got what they wanted, or better yet, what they could afford. I can see the benefits of that route, it’d give you money to address that ride height. Remember, wheel gap kills. Never really understood the high brow “exclusive,” a.k.a., “my car cost more than that other one and now nobody will be able to tell,” mindset.</p>
<p>Will this package become available in the US? If so, when?</p>
<p>@ bat: The answer is yes. Just received a bulletin from MINI USA. The finer details will not be announced until later this month or next month and these accessories will begin to be offered for April production cars.</p>
<p>you read the release, and you see words like “sporting allure” and “impressive visual impact” But the “sporting allure” is BOTH technical AND stylistic, whatever that means!</p>
<p>Hmmmmmm…</p>
<p>Matt</p>
p>@Versus</p
<p>Your comments are typical of the jealous type who want to marginalize something you want but can’t afford.</p>
<p>AKA “sour grapes”</p>
<p>“Hey, every Mini should have a body kit so they all look the same and no one gets their feelings hurt. Why should the guy who spent the extra money get the attention”.</p>
<p>Because he worked hard and earned it and deserves to have something SPECIAL.</p>
<p>MINI Sport Pack
Following yesterday’s introduction of the new John Cooper Works Pack and the hint that we will get the chance to see it at the forthcoming edition of the Geneva Auto Show this March, MINI has now revealed pricing information of the sporty styling kit of the MINI Hatch and Convertible models.</p>
<p>A special aerodynamic package for the exterior of the car, available in eight body colors and rounded off by the lightweight 17 inch John Cooper Works Cross Spoke alloy wheels, as well as a matching interior theme, are just a few of the new JCW Sport Pack’s key features.</p>
<p>Also included in the package are the Dynamic Traction Control (DTC) and Electronic Differential Lock Control (ELDC) to complement the standard Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) system. </p>
<p>Additionally, customers can also choose from other John Cooper Works Accessory retrofit options, available exclusively for MINI Cooper S in Hatch, Clubman and Convertible form. </p>
<p>These include performance-enhanced engine management and a specially-designed air filter system to maximise the twin-scroll turbo engine output at 200hp (from 184hp) and 250 Nm of torque, with 270Nm using Overboost. The kit also includes a sports exhaust silencer that delivers a more rorty engine note, and the option of 18 inch Cross Spoke Red Stripe alloy wheels.</p>
<p>Pricing details for the new MINI Sport Pack are listed below:</p>
<p>MINI One/One D Hatch £2995
MINI Cooper/Cooper D Hatch £3245
MINI Cooper S/Cooper SD Hatch £2260
MINI One/ Convertible £2785
MINI Cooper/Cooper D Convertible £2995
MINI Cooper S/Cooper SD Convertible £2150
autoevolution will be attending the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, so stay tuned for some real up close and personal shots of the vehicles, as well as for first-hand details of the motorized contraptions presented at the event.</p>
<p>@ blackballed</p>
<p>What do I have to be sour or jealous about? Nowhere did I advocate for everything to look the same so “no one gets their feelings hurt.” Argue facts or things I actually said, but don’t invent words or assume things to suit your point.</p>
<p>For those still with me let me rephrase my original question. How does one having an MCS with a JCW bodykit in any way devalue your JCW with the same kit or interfere with your enjoyment of it? I’m not trying to rain on anybody’s parade but we all know that JCW bits are available across the brand and I just don’t see why one would feel entitled to parts that anyone can check off the option sheet.</p>
p>@Versus</p
<p>“things I actually said”</p>
<p>did you say “never really understood the high brow “exclusive” AKA “my car cost more than that other one” mindset” or was that some other whiner doing a fiendish impersonation?</p>
<p>seriously 0-62 mph in 6.8 seconds that is slow by any standard. Not impressed at all.</p>
<p>Just curious:
Under what circumstance would one purchase a Non-S then decide to drop 3+ grand on a JCW package?</p>
<p>I am looking to buy this kit to my Mini Cooper S 2012 were can I get it?</p>