AutoGuide's verdict:
Improving on its strengths, MINI has made the Cooper S an even more attractive package, with technology that’s sure to please urbanite Mac geeks, more fuel economy to appease your inner Al Gore and an excessive amount of metrosexual style. Oh, and let’s not forget a touch more performance, in case you’re actually thinking of buying a MINI for the best reason there is.
More than pleased with all these improvements, our continued complaints fall on deaf ears and are likely to do so for some time. A slightly softer ride (not worse handling, just softer) would help make the Cooper a more livable car for a lot of buyers and please, please, scrap every notion of what a MINI interior has been for the past decade and start from scratch.
For now, let’s just say the 2011 Cooper S makes the good better, and forgets about the rest.
