The current Cooper S and JCW have been around for a while now, and make for a canny secondhand purchase
Note for reference: car weight and power data are hard to pin down with absolute certainty. For consistency, we use the same source for all our guides. We hope the data we use is right more often than it's wrong. Our advice is to treat it as relative rather than definitive.The gradual gentrification of the Cooper S disguised the fact that, in gen-three form, it was a demonstrably quick car. The capacity increase from 1.6 to 2.
The six-speed manual gearbox worked well enough as long as you weren't too impatient on changes and didn't mind an element of springy notchiness. An excess amount of jerkiness on gearchanges could often be traced back to a clutch delay valve in the slave cylinder, which could be removed.
Some cars have suffered from broken engine mounts, usually flagged up by a thud on start up and some complementary rattles that would disappear at engine speeds above 3,000rpm. One owner on an F56 community noted that his 64-reg S with a JCW tuning kit on it had stopped revving past 4,000rpm. A responder thought it might be a clogged cat but no firm conclusion was reached on that.
Cooper S alloys were 16-inch, up from 15-inch on the non-S, but still not that massive. 17s were a £450 option. The JCW had 17-inch alloys as standard, with 18s as an option. Nobody really rated the Pirelli run-flat tyres that came on it from the factory. Most found Michelin Pilot Sport 4 tyres to be noticeably better in all conditions, in terms of both grip and ride comfort. Michelin do now do a PS4S in 18-inch but not in the Mini size.
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