The JCW Race Team Finishes The Olympus Rally Outside of the Top Three
After a podium finish in its first rally, the JCW Race Team’s rookie season is becoming a bit grueling. Both the JCW Cooper and JCW Countryman finished off the podium in what...
MINI Heads Back to the Forest for the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood
This weekend MINI USA and the John Cooper Works Race Team return to the American Rally Association championship for the second round of the 2026 season. The March 13–14 event, based around...
What If JCW Looked Like the Machina? How MINI Could Evolve Its Performance Halo
JCW has been on a tear with record sales globally in 2025. But the brand also feels like it’s at a crossroads. MINI has allowed the look of the JCW to be...
MINI Rally Return Starts With a Podium and It’s Just Getting Started
The 2026 American Rally Association season began exactly the way MINI hoped it might, sideways, snow-covered and standing on a podium. At the February 6–7 Sno*Drift Rally in Atlanta, Michigan, MINI USA...
The MINI Aceman JCW Might Be the Sweet Spot of the Entire JCW Range
For the first time the brand offers performance models across multiple body styles and two completely different powertrains. There is the electric hot hatch, the traditional gasoline Cooper and a surprisingly powerful...
The Secret AWD MINI That Could Have Changed JCW Forever
In 2004, while the R53 MINI Cooper S was busy redefining what a modern hot hatch could be, Getrag was testing something that might have redefined MINI itself: a compact, torque vectoring...
MINI’s Latest Special Edition Rewinds to 1965 Monte Carlo Glory
Just one week after unveiling its latest GP inspired special edition, MINI is back with another heritage play. The new MINI 1965 Victory Edition is a design focused, appearance driven package with...
The MINI GP Inspired Edition Arrives Without a GP to Inspire It
There is something slightly surreal about the F66 MINI GP Inspired Edition. It is a special edition that celebrates a car that does not exist. Not in this generation, anyway. When MINI...
MINI Rally Updates from the Sno*Drift Rally
MINI’s return to rally racing in the United States moves from story to stage this weekend. MINI USA and LAP Motorsports begin their 2026 American Rally Association campaign at Michigan’s Sno*Drift Rally,...
MINI Officially Commits to Full 2026 ARA Rally Season with Two Factory-Backed Cars
It’s official – MINI is back in rally. For months we’ve been circling this story, first when we broke the news last fall that MINI was “rally curious”, and then again just...
Is JCW Going Soft or Simply Finding the Right Balance?
For decades, MINI JCW meant something very specific. Loud, stiff, a little unruly, and unapologetically focused on performance and feel over comfort. A MINI JCW was never meant to be the best...