Auto123.com drives the JCW version on an ex-airfield while in Germany and gives its first impressions. One comment,
The Coupé is being aggressively marketed as the sportiest mini thus far, with "go-kart like handling". If we had any doubts about those claims, they were erased by a couple of hot laps riding shotgun in the 250-hp, 24-Hour Nürburgring JCW coupe race car, a genuine, raucously nasty, stripped GT racer featuring a twin-scroll turbocharger, adjustable shocks, a welded roll cage and an adjustable rear wing.