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2012 Mini Cooper Coupe JCW
Fun, Form And Function... In That Order Human beings can be a fickle bunch, especially North Americans. Case in point: The five-door hatchback is unarguably one of the best arrangements for an automobile, providing ample room for adult-size occupants and their random detritus without being so large as to significantly impact fuel efficiency or make it difficult to fit into tight places. And yet we consistently flock to ever-larger vehicles with the biggest, most powerful engines available. We often opt for SUVs and crossovers in lieu of wagons and hatches; we ogle over sloping rear ... Read More
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0Featured: Mini Coupe made lighter, more powerful by Revozport 1345463880
Revozport is a Chinese tuner, but one of its tuning arms reaches all the way to the UK. To reward itself for getting a particular ISO certification, its UK office put together the Revozport Mini Targa Raze, a program applicable to either the Mini Coupe or Roadster. It might be a smidge OTT, but it's not a bad job. With the help of Targa racing the motor ...
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Rumormill: Mini nixes Coupe GP plans 1342125060
If you were hoping Mini might be bringing out a John Cooper Works GP version of its new Coupe hatchback bodystyle, we're sorry to disappoint you, but the Mini-obsessed folks at MotoringFile says it's not going to happen. Despite having gotten far enough into development that our spy shooters were able to catch the car during testing on public roads, the ...
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Review: 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe 1337791500
Struggling To Find A Reason For Being The six basic building blocks of life are sulfur, phosphorus, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen. Arrange those in any number of ways and you can get either a single-celled paramecium or Angelina Jolie. The Mini brand works much the same way. Take the same group of engines, interior bits and exterior design ...
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Video: Mini's Best Test Drive Ever has everything, plus Falconer 1324688280
Imagine, for a moment, that you're on your way to a car dealership. For the sake of argument, let's say it's a Mini Cooper Coupe you've got your eye on. You arrive at the dealer, hand over your licence and get in for a test drive. What's the absolute best thing that could happen? According to one man, these six words define the test drive that dreams are ...
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First Drive: 2012 Mini Cooper Coupe JCW 1317315600
Fun, Form And Function... In That Order Human beings can be a fickle bunch, especially North Americans. Case in point: The five-door hatchback is unarguably one of the best arrangements for an automobile, providing ample room for adult-size occupants and their random detritus without being so large as to significantly impact fuel efficiency or make it ...
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Video: Watch the new Mini Coupe take on the 24 Hours of Nürburgring 1309523400
Mini is currently waist-deep in a world tour to show off its new Cooper Coupe. We've seen the prototype journey to the top of Mt. Washington, and now a pair of John Cooper Works Coupes have been put to the most grueling of tests in Germany. How so? Mini sent the Coupes into the Green Hell to compete in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. The Mini JCW ...
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Quick Spin: Quick Spin: 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe [w/video] 1308758220
Fastest Factory Mini Ever Built This was, at the very least, a perfect matchup of car and track. We've just returned from enjoying a day-trip drive in a pre-production 2012 Mini Coupe, the very two-door that is due for worldwide deliveries at the start of October. Not only that, the only model available to drive was the 208-horsepower John Cooper Works ...
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Video: Video: 2012 Mini Coupe makes its motion picture debut 1308700620
The 2012 Mini Cooper Coupe is hot off the presses, with unique sheet metal, upgraded power numbers and a promise to become the fastest production Mini on the market. We can live with that, and Mini is hoping coupe shoppers can, too. To kick of the latest ride in the Mini stable, the advertising team came up with a fun little video with the tagline ...