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- 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe: Review
- 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe: Review
- 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe: Review
- 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe: Review
- 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe: Review
- 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe: Review
- 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe: Review
- 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe: Review
- 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe: Review
2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe
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 elements, combine them in various ways and you get everything from a three-door hatchback to a five-door crossover. It all started with the three-door hatchback, but Mini kept reconfiguring its basic elements to create a full range of ... Read More
Vital Stats
- Engine:
- Turbo 1.6L I4
- Power:
- 208 HP / 192 LB-FT
- Transmission:
- 6-Speed Manual
- MSRP:
- $38,350 as tested
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0Report: Mini may have overexpanded, some models may not be replaced 1365195420
Surprise, surprise. According to Edmunds, Mini may be looking to reduce the number of vehicles in its range, which has recently expanded to include a total of seven offerings (not to mention the copious varieties of configurations found within each line). When Mini relaunched in the early 2000s, it did so with one model, the Cooper Hardtop, and has since ...
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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 1337788620
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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Spy Shots: Mini preparing JCW GP version of Cooper Coupe too? 1334788080
Want a hot little hatchback? You could do a lot worse than a Mini. But as with many cars, your budget will determine how much speed you get: Cooper, Cooper S, JCW or – with the first-gen model, anyway – the top-of-the-line John Cooper Works GP. Introduced just before Mini launched the second-generation model line, the GP edition packed more ...
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Report: Mini to expand lineup to ten with three new versions by decade's end 1326902460
Think there are a lot of Mini variants already? Hold on to your hats, because BMW is showing no signs of slowing down any time soon. Next month the new Mini Roadster will hit American showrooms, and next year, a two-door crossover (presaged by the Paceman concept from Detroit last year but carrying the Countryman Coupe in production form) should be ...
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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 license 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 1317313740
Fun, Form And Function... In That Order Human beings can be a fickle bunch, especially 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 1309478220
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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Video: 2012 Mini Coupe makes its motion picture debut 1308700620
The 2012 Mini Cooper Coupe is hot off the presses, with unique sheetmetal, 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 ...
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Official: 2012 Mini Cooper Coupe gets up close and personal 1308607200
Mini is a brand that's all about having fun. The people that drive them tend to prize motoring enjoyment and the company's cheeky styling, and now they'll have a new model that might just twist their fun dial to 11. We present to you the 2012 Mini Cooper Coupe, which is the automaker's first production two-passenger automobile and also the fastest ...
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Quick Spin: 2012 Mini John Cooper Works Coupe [w/video] 1308067020
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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Spy Shots: Latest Mini Coupe photos suggest production nearly afoot 1300294800
We're inching ever closer to seeing the Mini Coupe in showrooms. The clipped Cooper is set to land on dealer lots as soon as this Autumn, and it looks like the company's engineers are hard at work ironing out the very last wrinkles in the platform. Our spy photographer commandos managed to click off a few photos of the most recent tester out and about ...
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Spy Shots: 2012 Mini Coupe nears production 1297288080
The Mini Coupe is set to go on sale this Fall and that means testing of the hatchless Cooper has begun in earnest. Caught by our spies running around outside BMW headquarters in Germany, the 2012 Mini Coupe uses the Bavarians' standard psychedelic camo, but it wasn't able to hide a new retractable spoiler nestled within the trunk – something that ...
