When the Mini John Cooper Works GP was officially confirmed ... As with its predecessor, the back seats are binned, while a bold diffuser and spoiler contribute to a 90 per cent reduction in ...

It wasn’t simply that the R56 Mini Cooper S Hatch, which hit the road in 2007, was a couple of inches longer than the R53 that came before it. No, there was something else about the new model, too.

The first assessment of the John Cooper Works tuning package is in ... The now-turbocharged (instead of supercharged, as on the first-gen MINI) S gets 17 more horsepower at 6,000 rpm, but the ...

The R56 refreshed the Mini with a raft of changes from a new body to a turbocharged engine in the Cooper S, but importantly it remained true to the Mini model. While it remained true to form it didn't ...