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I got to climb around that JCW at Fontana. They let us start it up and rev it, and poke around under the bonnet, which was nice.

I look forward to getting mine when they start making the manual transmission [next month supposedly]. Having owned 5 prior MINI's that made up a wide swath of conceptual states of tune [from basically stock to wildly modified engine and suspension, and a few in-between] from the previous two generations, I do feel like I'm in a good position to have a wide perspective to flesh out what this new model is all about.

Oh, and I'm getting Midnight Black with a Chili Red roof.

 

I kinda like it. But we know Dave.0 will not, lol.

 

I'm not into all the electronics as they drive me bonkers but I'm sure there are lots of folks who absolutely gots to have them, on the good side I will say the seats look really nice.

 

After reading through the BMW F30 LCI press release and comparing the nitty gritty with the F56 [including JCW] press releases, it appears the Bimmer's will now share the MINI's engines like so:

318i [not for USA]: B38 3-cylinder turbo, same as Cooper
320i: B48A 4-cyl turbo w/11.0:1 compression ratio, same as Cooper S
330i: B48B 4-cyl turbo w/10.2:1 compression ratio, same as JCW

This will bode very well for the future of MINI performance, since the BMW aftermarket is historically bigger than MINI. Good news indeed.

 

Because it so stealth that it can't be photographed

 

This is a very cool car. Saw this one at Laguna this past Saturday.

 

The new JCW is growing on me.

Keeping the GP, though.

 

all that blather but not a word on price...

 

Starts at 30,600.

Go build one on MINIUSA.com.

 

No wonder - I just saw a '15 Roadster that was almost $46K!

 

:cornut: Whistle Whistle.....Dave.O are you around? Dave.O.......................

Jason

 

My local dealer got his first JCW in this week (red over black) and the shop was just finishing up full-body coverage of all the black body panels with XPEL Stealth flat material. The end result was absolutely breathtaking, and so was the price - $5,000. And even in flat black, the front end also was, uh, breathtaking.

BTW, MSRP was over $41,000.

No, there are no pictures - you just have to see the Stealth effect in person.

 

A shift point indicator in the head-up display sounds good, though restricting it to the JCW is typical Mini meanness.

 

That's absolutely true. It was really weird - the salesman was wearing camoflauge, so when he stood next to the car, all you could see was a human head floating next to a Chili Red roof and mirrors that also appeared to be floating in midair! rrr: