MINI JCW Receives “Sport Auto Award 2015”
**Official Release:** The MINI John Cooper Works continues its series of successes at the annual “Sport Auto” magazine readers’ choice and takes first place in the importer small car category. Thanks to...
Race Report: MINI JCW Series Finale at Road Atlanta
The MINI JCW Team’s first year in the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, a year that saw many long hours of hard work and a little frustration, came to a glorious conclusion at...
The Science of Speed
Pushing a car – especially a MINI – to its limits on a track is thrilling, exhilarating, and many more other adjectives. To understand what is behind all these feelings, the University...
Rumor: MINI Testing Carbon Fiber Components
BMW is the world’s leading automotive manufacturer of carbon fiber with its BMWi brand. We’ve reported on the strategy, the technology and the models created with it. But the brand’s plans with...
Dyno Results: F56 with JCW Tuning Kit
We’ve always known BMW and MINI to be rather conservative in listing power and torque outputs. Now it would appear we have yet another example of this. Pedro of the site MotoringFun...
MINI’s Launch Control Secrets Decoded
We’ve been a little down on the new automatic gearbox in the JCW (and Cooper S) recently. While it’s a huge improvement over the previous automatics in MINIs, it delivers less driver...
57% of JCWs in the US Are Manual – Lets Keep it that Way
So often we’re told that the US market is all about automatics. MINI USA has given us some stats that prove that is simply not correct when it comes to MINI’s performance...
Woofcast #562: When Does the Trash Talking Start?
Gabe joins us tonight to talk about news from [MotoringFile](https://www.motoringfile.com) and his time with the new JCW. Full review can be found at [iamnotwearingpants.com](http://iamnotwearingpants.com). Besides all of that, we also talk about...
MINI JCW Race Team Heads To Road America’s Continental Tire Road Race Showcase
Since the 1950s the track at Elkhart Lake, WI has hosted the sport of racing for fans, drivers and racing enthusiasts of all stripes. This weekend two JCWs will hit the course...
JCW Walkthrough with MINI USA Head of Product (Video)
During last week’s press event, we had the chance to meet with [The Fast Lane Car](http://www.tflcar.com) Chief, Roman Mica. Roman is a really nice guy and obviously a huge car enthusiast, and...