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JCW GP Car Cover Coming

GP owners, you’re car covers are coming! Word from sources is that MINI will be making available a car cover specifically designed to fit snugly over the rear spoiler of the GP....

JCW GP Photography

With all the excitement over MTTS and the release of the US GPs, there really hasn’t been many decent pictures (with the exception of TC & ed100’s) of the car out in...

MF Review: John Cooper Works GP

JCW GP doesn’t photograph well. I know you’ve probably heard and read it before, but you can’t get the full impression of what this car looks like from the photos. In person,...

MF Review: JCW Alcantara Steering Wheel

The steering wheel is the single most used interface of a car and it’s the most important input device for both the track and the road. Generally speaking, thicker wheels with softer,...

Is the 2007 MCS Faster than JCW GP? (No)

GP owners breath easy. A vague mention combined with mis-read press release means that the comparison made between the GP and the new MCS isn’t correct. The GP is 14 seconds faster...

MINI Featured in September’s EVO

This month’s EVO (a mag always on our preferred reading list) features the JCW GP in a huge comparison aimed at finding the best handling FWD car of all time. It should...

JCW GP On the Scales

Ian of GBMINI fame completed paperwork for the purchase of his Monterey Delivered GP today; this included getting a copy of the “certificate of origin” which reports the GP horsepower as 214...

More Power for ’08 JCW MCS

Apparently BMW is serious this time. Not that the current JCW isn’t fast, but it’s clear that BMW will need more power if they are to position the MCS JCW against such...

The First USA GPs

Up to 45 “MINI Cooper S with JCW GP kit” MINIs will be delivered to their new owners in less than four weeks, in Monterey, California at the Monterey Historic (http://www.montereyhistoric.com/) weekend....