MINI2 - MINI Forum - View Single Post - About to buy new Cooper-S (prob JCW)

kevkbuk · Jan 4th, 2008, 11:22 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by theminidoc (original)

I am getting the cooper s any time now and plan to retrofit the jcw tuning kit coming end of this year.

Rumour is there are to be no more tuning kits, and the new JCW model will be a factory installed option only. Of course its all rumours at the moment, the new JCW model hasn't been officially announced, and I wouldn't get excited about ordering it until it has been.

The factory JCW is likely to have slightly more power and better brakes. I think it will be like adding the tuning kit again to the stage 1, so not really that much of an increase, and I bet it will cost more than doing that.

I'd be tempted to wait if you don't want/need to change cars now, I needed to change a year ago so I purchased the S and then found myself upgrading to the Works kit later on....

Jan 4th, 2008, 11:22 AM	#4
kevkbuk MINI2 Senior Join Date: Sep 2006 Local Time: 10:58 PM Posts: 540 Offline	Quote: Originally Posted by theminidoc (original) I am getting the cooper s any time now and plan to retrofit the jcw tuning kit coming end of this year. Rumour is there are to be no more tuning kits, and the new JCW model will be a factory installed option only. Of course its all rumours at the moment, the new JCW model hasn't been officially announced, and I wouldn't get excited about ordering it until it has been. The factory JCW is likely to have slightly more power and better brakes. I think it will be like adding the tuning kit again to the stage 1, so not really that much of an increase, and I bet it will cost more than doing that. I'd be tempted to wait if you don't want/need to change cars now, I needed to change a year ago so I purchased the S and then found myself upgrading to the Works kit later on....