Rock-hard Mini John Cooper Works is coming this year

Anyone who goes shopping for a Mini hatchback in 2024 will be presented with a completely different delivery range than a few years ago. The hatchback family has been renamed Cooper and is now split into two lines. There is a fully electric and technically completely new Mini Cooper E and SE on a platform developed by BMW Group and the Chinese Great Wall Motor, and a Mini Cooper C or Cooper S hatchback with petrol engines. That Cooper with combustion engines is actually a thoroughly facelifted version of the previous generation Mini hatchback. The five-door Cooper is not available yet, but it will also be a refreshed variant of the previous five-door hatchback with combustion engines. But the Mini family is not yet complete. There will also be extra potent John Cooper Works versions.

The Mini Cooper – so the refreshed old one – gets a John Cooper Works variant, but for the first time there will also be such a sporty top version of the electric Mini. Do not confuse those John Cooper Works versions with the JCW package that is already available for the Minis. That JCW package mainly includes external extras, while the actual John Cooper Works engine versions also become a lot more powerful. How potent exactly? We don’t know yet, but you can bet that the electric Mini John Cooper Works will easily exceed the 218 hp of the Cooper SE. The previous ‘petrol John Cooper Works’ produced 231 hp and the new one will not be inferior to that.

Mini now shows an extensive series of photos of the racing version of the new Mini John Cooper Works. It will participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans later this year. During that annual racing spectacle, Mini presents the street version. The five-door Mini Cooper will not get a John Cooper Works version. The electric Aceman does, by the way, and the Cabrio – which is also being revised – possibly too!