Saturday and Sunday overnight run to South Lake Tahoe. Enjoy the backroads, less traveled, and even more scenic than your usual run up the f...
2012 MINI JCW Coupe Tagged "Fastest Factory MINI Ever Built"
autoblog go a chance to drive the 2012 MINI JCW Coupe and called it the "fastest factory MINI ever built" provides its impressions of the vehicle and posts a plethora of test mule pictures. It also provides this pricing information and rhetorical questions:
Our sources tell us that the price hike for the niche-o-rama Mini Coupe will be between seven and nine percent above the Mini hatchback trim-for-trim. So, a Mini Cooper Coupe should fetch around $21,900 and the JCW Coupe will hover around $31,900.
We were actually sort of hoping we might get the chance to drive non-JCW coupe trims and over normal roads, but this will have to wait. However, in terms of the U.S. market, we're not sure if customers for the low-volume Coupe will want anything other than the JCW or Cooper S levels, with maybe a handful of base Cooper buyers showing up.
The drive is undeniably fine, but we really can't anticipate how the Mini Coupe will do over here. At least the forthcoming Roadster variant can drop its top, so we definitely see more of a business case in that configuration. For the hardtop coupe, we can see it being a hard sell, particularly with the cost premium. Or are we being too practical?
