Mountain Wheels: The ferocious Mini Cooper S hardtop - Summit Daily News
Still the darling of the weirder-than-thou crowd, the BMW-build Mini Cooper has, in recent years, been spun off into so many variations — seven, plus the John Cooper Works models — that it’s sometimes hard to keep track of what happened to that... But some time with the four-door, hardtop Mini Cooper S, a relatively straightforward iteration of the Mini platform, is a good chance to see how small, intense motoring is still very much the name of the game here. The most recent round of updates to the Mini have further sussed out that gleeful, happy-go-lucky exterior and created an all-black, glassed-in greenhouse that’s a bit like what they do with the Range Rover — black window supports and all — topped... My tester, which started as a base model priced at about $25,000 but ended up as a rather BMW-ish almost $36,000 with loads and loads of options, did of course sport greyed-out British flags on the side mirrors and the body side signal repeaters,... And in this S model, the twin-turbo 2. 0-liter four-cylinder spits out a feisty 189 horsepower and 207 lb. -ft. of torque, which gets a major multiplier effect considering that the car weighs just over 2,900 pounds (but is not, thankfully,... Source: www.summitdaily.com
