2008 Mini Cooper S John Cooper Works
In the last generation of the Mini, the John Cooper Works package underwent a slow evolution. It began as a dealer-installed kit that included a revised head, a new supercharger with a smaller drive pulley, and a free-flowing exhaust system. The sum of the parts was a 37-hp bump to an even 200. Eventually, the kits became so popular that they were installed on the assembly line. For its last hurrah, JCW created the Grand Prix kit, a limited-edition model that deleted the back seat in favor of a strut-tower brace and boosted the horsepower to 215.
Mini is starting back at the bottom of the scale with the next JCW package, but with one major difference. No more will dealers install JCW kits, because BMW bought the rights to the John Cooper Works name and developed and tested this newest model entirely in-house.
People are already referring to JCW as Mini’s M performance arm, but we’ll wait to hop aboard that bandwagon. An M car with a tepid 17-hp increase over the base model would send people screaming into the streets to roll cars onto their roofs, light them on fire, and proclaim the end of the world, damn the tear gas. But that’s just what the 2008 Mini Cooper S JCW gets: 17 more horses, from the Cooper S’s 172 to 189.
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