We’re Picking up Our 301 HP JCW Clubman and Heading to the Dragon
This week we pick up our new 2020 301 hp JCW Clubman. But that’s just one of three reasons we’re massively excited. We’re doing it at the BMW Performance Center where we’ll...
Triple Test: MINI JCW Clubman, BMW M135i and the AMG A35
The new 301 hp MINI JCW Clubman is an interesting proposition on paper. Somewhere between a wagon and a hot-hatch, the JCW Clubman offers fast alternative to typical hot hatches. To test...
Longterm Review: 2019 JCW Countryman
If a manual, all wheel drive performance crossover sounds like a unicorn, that’s because it is. And for 20,000 miles we’ve driven this unicorn through about every scenario you can imagine and...
MotoringFile is Getting a New MINI
If you count all of our contributors we have lots of MINIs. But there’s only one official test MINI year after year. And every year we try to pick one that appeals...
Hands-On with the 2020 MINI JCW GP – All that We Learned Inside and Out
After years of anticipation the all 301 hp 2020 MINI JCW GP is here. Sort of. Still wrapped and in prototype specification, the GP you see above is 95% of the production...
Driving the First MINI JCW GP – Can it Compete with Modern MINIs?
Thirteen years ago when the JCW GP entered the automotive scene things were different. Turbocharged MINIs were only a tuner thing and fast meant under 6 seconds to 60. 13 years on...
MF Garage – Our JCW Countryman Hits 15,000 Miles and Blows a Tire
15,000 miles in our 2018 JCW Countryman has taught us a lot. For one run-flats aren’t impervious to screws. Also that six speed manual we were excited? Turns out it’s the worst...
2020 301 HP BMW X2 M35i – An Extra 73 HP Does the Trick
You’re looking at our best preview of the updated 301 hp JCW Clubman and Countryman coming to MINI dealers later this year. So how is this updated X2 to drive and what...
MotoringFile Review – The Classic Mini
The classic Mini. What can you say that hasn’t already been said. I’ve had a few chances to drive them but to been years and never pristine examples. So when MINIUSA asked...
What -23 Degrees Fahrenheit Does to a MINI JCW Countryman
It turns out not a lot. Our JCW Countryman has soldiered through a lot this winter already. But operating at -23F (-31C) is a new trick it. We’ve all seen the spy-shots...