MINI Coupe JCW Driven

Driven?!?!

Not the best review considering you drove the model. It is more press release material than a review of the car.

By kendo on 8 June, 2011, 2:03pm

NP

Am I alone in thinking this is a FUGLY effort?
why would you bother chopping the back off it?

By nevilleparker on 9 June, 2011, 7:00am

NA

You are not alone, it is the FUGLiest!

By drive on 9 June, 2011, 8:08am

@nevilleparker - I think we might be in the majority with this one, but I think FUGLY the Countryman is FUGLY. To describe this much ugliness we need a new word.

By chickenfeed on 9 June, 2011, 8:20am

I think...

...somebody at BMW/MINI design has had a lobotomy. Either that or Audi has bribed the chief designer in an attempt to undo its competitor!

By BARNEYM1979 on 9 June, 2011, 8:48am

Is it unreliable like the others

By barry on 9 June, 2011, 9:40am

Another new mini?

It must be Thursday. I look forward to a week when there isn't a new Mini. Maybe next week they'll do one shaped like a pizza, or maybe powered by chicken cack, or possibly one with a 20 litre foot spa, maybe we could have one with a yellow gear lever, or maybe a mini maxi, y'know, looks like a Mini but its as as difficult to park as a Range Rover, oh you've done that. Hmmm, Barbie Mini - there's an idea........

By craiglife on 9 June, 2011, 9:44am

..........

How about a Mini Me, you know, has a big picture of my face on the front. What about Micro Mini, 10 inch wheels, no room for people, sliding windows and a 950cc engine - they could even put the battery in the boot!... Heeeeeyyyyyyy - Blobfish Mini, we could make it swim underwater! Get me the crayons... NOW!

By craiglife on 9 June, 2011, 9:50am

£24,000 ! ! ! ! !

Gasp!

By craiglife on 9 June, 2011, 9:54am

Ha Ha

Best set of comments I've read for a long time.

By hsbcgeoff on 9 June, 2011, 11:16am

Give me a DS3 anyday

Knowing BMW, by the time you have added a few necessary extras you'll be looking at £27K + for one of these which might JUST work if you're dumb enough to stump up that kind of money, but it's still ugly and only seats two. God forbid the suspension is even stiffer - having been in a Cooper S previously I found this unacceptable so this would seem even worse! OK so a DS3 Sport is not as quick, but it's not a million miles off and it's far better looking, more practical and certainly more comfortable. Mind you, I've never really liked the "new" Mini's so...

By thorntonjames on 9 June, 2011, 11:32am

By a STREEKA, save ££££££

Next to this, the Fiat Multipla is a design classic. Ford did it so much better with the Mk1 StreetKa.

By RogerWillis3 on 9 June, 2011, 12:30pm

Mini Designed by Tennessee Williams

If you got Marlon Brando out of the grave to drive it you could have a top "Tag-Line"

"A STtreetKa named (un)Desire(able)"

It really is crap, take that "Etch-O-Sketch" off the design team.

By derkdangler on 9 June, 2011, 2:34pm

Losing the plot!

Are they trying to make a Mini for everyone, instead of a Mini for the people... Just seem to be losing the plot, its no longer a Mini, but a Midi, its not even retro, I'm just waiting for the amphibious version next month!!!
Not surprised by the price of what, I call a proper Mini's

By AlanN on 9 June, 2011, 6:57pm

who would want one of these when Audi have just brought outr the A1

By ianhallett on 9 June, 2011, 8:45pm

accurate

Every comment made above is an accurate observation.
Oh dear, oh dear, haven't we seen enough of this not very mini New Mini?
It's really getting boring now.

Perhaps BMW should have a long hard look at the brilliant original Issigonis design and produce a real and affordable Mini instead of this overly expensive and useless Euro hatchback New Mini thing and it's many even less mini variations on a theme?

By takata on 9 June, 2011, 9:22pm

Real man's machine?

Real man's machine? Blonde ladies heading into middle age will be the usual target buyers surely...

By mikeable1 on 10 June, 2011, 8:29pm

AlanN - They lost the plot a while ago. Pity!

But on the other hand BMW are investing an interesting 500 Million EUROS in new plant and equipment for the future with Mins at Cowley!

So it is a slight consolation and otherwise most of the critics are right or partially right! Certainly accurant and his suggestion- it is tíme for a real and affordable Mini but as things are going it will
have to built by SAIC or Geely in China it seems!

I fondly remember the real Minis back in 1969 - I had a not so adventurous MG 1300 2 Door and my colleague Dick had a roaring to go Morris Mini Cooper 1275 S in red ! That was something!

The present Minis are furniture vans in comparison, especially on winding countries roads etc! Maybe.................................?

By vandenplas4litre on 11 June, 2011, 10:24am

What did you expect

Im suprised so many people are annoyed by the way this car looks, its a mini coupe, so they were only ever going to use the original shape and mould it to a more sleek and reacy design. Which they've done. In case all of you hadnt noticed, the bmw mini has sold insanely well all over the globe, so why would they stray so far from the original design with this new coupe and risk not getting the sales. its is what it says on the tin.....a mini coupe. Job well done i say

By BrookesLad on 13 June, 2011, 9:43am

BMW Mini

It seems I am not the only one who thinks BMW have lost the plot with the Mini.

Ridiculous prices, ugly design, it's no longer a Mini. Maybe they would be better renaming it the BMW 0 Series.

Minis used to be cheap & tacky but FUN. Whrer has it all gone wrong? Oh yes, BMW got there hands on it!

By dastardly01 on 13 June, 2011, 11:57am

I like it!

I appear to be one of the few people who thinks this is a cool-looking car. As BrookesLad says, it's exactly what you'd expect a MINI coupe to look like. What's more, the regular hatch is such a great handling car, so surely the idea of a lighter, lower and sharper version is music to driving enthusiasts' ears!

By LotusFan92 on 15 June, 2011, 11:04pm

Since When

Did the 1.6 petrol get twin turbos' I am positive it only has one

By Shaun34 on 21 June, 2011, 11:54pm