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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 easily applied to almost any Cooper by simply checking a box on the options list. So how does MINI make JCW feel more special, not only behind the wheel but visually?
Based on sources, we believe MINI is asking tha...
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 and the John Cooper Works Race Team kicked off their first full campaign in the American Rally Association National Championship. The result was encouraging: a second...
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 Countryman that edges toward performance SUV territory.
And right in the middle of it all sits the J05 MINI Aceman JCW. Not the smallest JCW. Not the...
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 all wheel drive system that could have redefined MINI performance and likely the JCW brand for decades to come.
In 2004 we first
If you ask us what the best looking F66 MINI Cooper is to date, the answer is easy. It is the Elie Saab Cooper S. Not just because of the sculptural copper to bronze gradient paint. But because of how its designers completely reimagined the interior, bringing warmth, tactility and an organic quality back to a cabin that can otherwise feel stark in standard form.
MIN...