2024 Electric Mini Cooper Review | The ULTIMATE City Car? 

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Took delivery of ours a couple of weeks ago - it’s brilliant - can’t imagine needing anything much faster for everyday use. It’s great fun to drive - surprising nimble and agile and the driving sounds are fab - especially in Go-kart with the drive set to regen ‘B’ mode - when you back off the throttle it sounds like a pod-racer from The Phantom Menace. 😀. We had the last of the old Mini convertibles on loan for a week from MINI before our new one arrived and the difference in quality and materials is immediately obvious - the new MINI is in a different league to the old one. If you’ve got one on order, it’s well worth the wait. 👍

Great, imparial and honest review as always Jim. Many thanks and have a great weekend

Nice review! Lovely car. Looks and driving fun!

Mine is coming any day now. I can't wait.

Coming early August. Cannot wait. Luckily on an ev car scheme so “only” £340 a month all-in cost.

Lots to like about that little (not so little) thing. Very cool features in and out. Easy to see why you love it so much 👍🏼

Great review, that car looked a lot of fun.

👍👍👍. Thanks Jim

got ours delivered 2 days ago, nanuq white with red roof and red racing stripes. I'm really really surprised by how good looking the car is in real life, love the bonnet (it's like raised 5-10 centimeters) and the very aggresively curved front mirror. It has something of a supercar, amazing car and getting lots of thumbs up and compliments

I have one of the first U25 Countryman S E Sport L3’s in the UK after 3 years with the previous gen Cooper S E L3. If was my 1st EV and it was just perfect for 95% of my driving needs but……….. if I wanted to go more than 120 miles I had to resort to my diesel 2023 Defender. I Loved the Cooper S E it was a blast but I have an elderly parent to transport around and I am passed retirement age so in April I it was changed for the Countryman S E that was sat on my Mini dealer’s forecourt - it was handed over to me on 9th April thanks to BMW allowing the dealer to sell what was about to be registered as their demo. I really love the Countryman S E Sport although I have had the silly “go faster” stripes taken off last week when the car was in having the bonnet and front wings done with Xpel PPF. The Countryman with AWD is brilliant to drive quickly on twisty roads and in the city where it’s suspension set up is pure dead brilliant! I managed to extract 255 of its 260 mile claimed range recently. It’s a great motorway cruiser too. It didn’t take me very long to find the switch to silence the silly engine noises. Not that keen on the JCW badging in many places on what isn’t really a JCW, just has very comfy sport seats over the other models. I’ve had software issues especially the satnav voice instructions when a route is set - it simply won’t give me any and says that English is an available language for the system! But also tells me that it cannot do instructions in French Spanish German or Italian as I’ve also tried those too - BMW iT don’t seem to be able to get it back as I did have voice instructions when I drove out of the showroom but they disappeared when the car became online/connected. The Augmented Reality is very good BUT you can only see it by looking away from the road to the big centre screen as it doesn’t show on the HUD. As you say with Mini Mini is great but the Countryman or as I call it the New Electric Austin Maxi especially in Sport guise is even better as there is no wheel scrabble on hard acceleration thanks to the clever way that the torque gets pushed around the AWD system. I’ve even tried mine Offroad (as a serious off-roader with my Defender the Countryman’s Trail mode setting had to be tried out at least once - I’ll stick to the Defender for anything more serious than a forest drive type gravel road - the low ground clearance isn’t great for battery safety! BTW I went for the Smokey Green with Black roof option for the colours - Legend grey or Black 0:20 with a red roof looks silly with the red “ear warmer flaps” intruding into the rear windows - unnecessary styling, but you don’t notice them at all if the roof is black, even on the white version they are less noticeable in black than red.

Great video

Thanks Jimbo looks an amazing car who would have a thought a mini having more rear seat space than a lexus and have a better interior

I can’t wait. Mine arrives in August.

Nice car, great review, but it's a £33k Mini. Just overpriced despite it being a great car.

That's a great looking car

Nice looking car 👍

The interior is amazing 😍

Nice review. Thanks Jimmer. Why does mini not do a 4 door in the electric? That baffles me .

I drove one of these JCW EVs a a few weeks ago. It blew me away. The best EV I've ever driven by a country mile.

That looks amazing! I want one!

Put your name down for a road test of the Hyundai Inster for comparison.

Sounds like a fun car to drive, just not sure the backend is very Mini looking though 🤔- Nice review - Thanks 👍

Great review, I'd like to see what you of think of the Smart #1 or #3 in comparison especially the Brabus 😉

Test drove it, as a former Mini owner (hatch and Clubman) I much prefer the previous generation.

Shame the JCW trim is just a look and not actually tuned. I don’t actually understand the difference between the “exclusive” trim and the “sports” trim apart from colourway.

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Nice that they’ve prioritised real-world driving over a 4 second 0-60 headline.

Just Too expensive to justify me upgrading from my current SE, even though my current range is so poor. In reality that’s never been a problem for me-It’s a city runabout, and 120 miles range works surprisingly well.

Looks nice, but I can’t justify £30K+ on a small EV. I’m more than happy with my used ID3 for half the price.

My wife is on her 4th Mini (currently the previous Electric one), however when i showed her the pictures of the base model new Mini (not the flash extortionate one you go to drive!), she said the back looks like a Suziki Swift (not a good thing) and that the interior switches look cheap compared to the old Mini switches/toggles etc. I have to agree, i think the looks are a backwards step. I think it looks a bit like a cheap Chinese alternative..

Still too expensive IMHO. There’s about a £7k difference between the petrol and EV versions which needs to be reduced.

A driver's car EV at last!? Is it front wheel drive?

Great review, but how can leatherette be considered to be sustainable? Leatherette is PVC, PVC is made from oil; leather is made from hides, people still eat beef, there will still be hides produced as a byproduct available, is this not more sustainable than oil based products that are now considered to be taboo?

I like the design and the Mini EV is better value than the Fiat 500 E . However, 23,000 old mini EVs?? Really? Is that the worldwide sales? It sounds dreadfully low....

Made in China and batteries are cheap these days, I don't think the price is justifiable. "Reassuringly expensive" as the old TV ad used to say ?

You said in this video that you were happy driving the new Mini electric, but try telling your face that then.😅😜😝😝🤪😂 Sorry, but I just couldn't resist that joke.👍 £34k+ is way too expensive for a small city ev.👎 If I was to get one, I would take your advice 🤔& lease it instead.👍

148 mile range with almost 100% charge! That’s 100 miles less than stated. A real shame you didn’t cover this point. That discrepancy is about the same as my GTS Taycan! Must be a German thing. . . .

I think the Aceman looks much better...

Why so pricey, the model tested costs more than a new highland model 3 😮

Holy shit, £43000 🤣

Nice looking Mini for sure but I'll stick with my petrol engine car.

I looks like a Chinese car