2015 MINI John Cooper Works Hardtop — The Mighty MINI Returns! - New York Daily News
The MINI Cooper is precocious, beguiling, and charming. And it’s also fun, fun, fun to drive. But look beyond the 181-horsepower Cooper S model - which is plenty fast for most folks – and you’ll find is the MINI John Cooper Works model, with a monstrous (for a MINI) 228-hp. The third generation of this maxed out MINI has just arrived, as a... Even with a bit less power, those cars were a bit uncouth, with too much torque for the front wheels to handle, resulting in frequent tugging of the steering wheel. So what we most wanted to know as we sampled the newest JCW is this: Has MINI finally found a way to make the Cooper faster, while simultaneously curing these previous flaws. Motivated by a hopped-up version of the Cooper S’ turbocharged 2. 0-liter 4-cylinder that churns out an impressive 228-hp, the JCW hurls forward hard from a stop and keeps the juice flowing well up to about 5,500 rpm (at which point acceleration... Source: www.nydailynews.com
