John Cooper was a trailblazing Formula 1 owner, his team pioneering the rear-mounted engine in the sport and winning two World Championships. Yet these days, the British engineer is best known for his ...

Today, 8 EMO is believed to be the only works Mini Cooper ‘S’ to have been fitted by BMC with all three ‘S’-specification engines. Eventually, after navigating some stop-startery, the traffic melts ...

Mini Countryman John Cooper Works: John Cooper Works (JCW) variants have been the apotheosis of performance Minis for eons now, and any Mini boasting a JCW badge should have you and your passengers ...

With the IAA Mobility auto show in Munich less than a week away, we were kind of expecting to see some truly revolutionary, ready-for-production vehicles being announced already. Instead, for now, ...

The original Mini Cooper was introduced in 1959. In the following 41 years, nobody saw a need for a total redesign, continually evolving and refining the design to keep up with what buyers expected.

Typically, getting to a media drive involves getting on an airplane and flying to the event, but I got lucky when the Mini held the 2025 John Cooper Works 2 Door launch only a few hours from where I ...