MINI has built a total of 500 Mini JCW World Championship 50 cars and two of them are headed to New Zealand in April 2010. The Mini JCW World Championship 50 cars commemorate 50 years of the classic Mini and victory in the F1 Drivers' and Constructors' Championship for John Cooper's racing team. John Cooper's son, Mike, inspired the commemorative car and his signature appears on both the fascia and one of the bonnet stripes, signed as "John Cooper." The cars are based on the JCW. They are painted "Connaught Green," a green racing color of British racing and sports cars of the 1950s and 60s, with white bonnet stripes to mirror the colors of the Cooper F1 cars. The vehicles have carbon-fiber bonnet scoops, rear diffusers, exterior mirror caps and tailgate handles. Inside,leather sports seats are finished in black with red piping. There are red knee-rolls, armrests and stitching on the floor mats, gearshift and handbrake gaiters. The fascia and door-grip finishers are also in carbon fiber.
[Source: New Zealand Herald]
