MINI John Cooper Works Challenge: So Loud It's Illegal - Carfection 

Megat Afiq Yep! Picked up my JCW on Friday

picked up my countryman yesterday :D full carbon body, with alcantara interior and akrapovic exhaust system and the 1 ltr engine from a fiat 500 twinair

Megat Afiq I have mini countrymen Cooper S ... love it 😍

Yup! R56 Cooper S, 220 hp/260 ft/lbs Manic Tune, Invidia exhaust, Bilsteins/ H&R's. Funny thing is with an Invidia exhaust, my MINI sounds exactly like the Challenge. Probably because of the twin scroll turbo and unequal length headers on both cars.

F56 Challenge 210 No061/210 🙋🏻

If everybody looked the same... we'd get tired of looking at each other ;)

Clio III RS > Any type of 207.

I was thinking the same thing!

With a simple remap people get about 280 bhp or more out of those things... there are various examples around the youtube. This new 2.0 liter engine is really underpowered and there is more than enough room for improvement.

In line chips are available with 3 settings Stock, 269 and 292 bhp :-)

+Jakov It shpuld for the price of a ZL1 Corvette here in the states, nevermind I have a 648hp/691ft-lb LS V8 ,T56 manual,CTS-V 3.48 Cadillac rear end 1991 Miata that was custom built at Flying Miata from ground up for $28,000U.S. You guys get screwed on cars. I know this. I was born in Epsom Surrey and Im still a citizen but im in the states with a Resident Alien Green card. A used E30 I looked at when I was visiting my uncle in Chelsea was £11,000!!!! WTF!!?? That is fckn common. No wonder everyone gets hard lil peters over 250hp. The common person here wont buy a 250hp car. Its shit.

From the future dreams have been answered.

Mr Bean reviewing Minis?? yh sounds fd ;)

alex krallis Type R best driver of the three and most unique

Or just buy a Leon 290 Sub8

Kaisuke971 Obviously. I absolutely adore the CUPRA!

Spent 10k to build an R56 Challenge car lol

Jonathan Price Starting from a casual CooperS?

Cupra is such a great platform

Nitron coilovers on a standard cooper s?

Recorded exhaust and then streamed on youtube is not the same as standing next to it...

Of course not. This thing is raucous asf in real life, I bet.

we own the mini challenge 210 which has this exhaust let me tell you its certainly loud enough to be :) !

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+Nik Brudar I bet it's actually a lot quieter than we think. People in the UK have much lower noise tolerance than other parts of the world, particularly the US. I've had people from the UK describe the M4 as "loud" and used words like "Thundering noise" to describe a stock Camaro SS. Were they friggin' serious? Yes, they were serious. What's "loud" to them isn't the same for others.

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+Carfection it reminds me Breguet's dials, nice!

efrain valladares I was wondering what watch he was wearing!

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Try being funny somewhere else. Even a regular Cooper S will run circles around your Fiat.

I think Klasse Act was rather getting at the fact that the Mini gets bigger and bigger every generation. I also find the current Mini too big and out of proportion. This is due to the fact that by the next generation BMW wants to have the Mini and 1 Series running on exactly the same platform

di foo!! ...yeah, I was being funny about the ray gun but as far as running circles around my Abarth....NO! I haven't been on track but I've been challenged by the rare MINI owner I've seen and it hasn't been pretty for the MINI, although it was an R56. I had an R56 from 2007-10 and it was a POS, 3 aux fuel pumps, fuel injector, MAP sensor, timing chain, 2 intake manifolds because it would freeze up when cold and the car would "diesel". I've had ZERO problems with my Abarth and its modded. I'm not saying that a Fiat is a Honda for reliability but it's been waaaaay more reliable than my old MINI and others has many problems with their R56's. That fact is this, R53 was the right size, then the R56 got bigger and now the F56 has gotten fat and lazy. It may have more power but it's waaaaay bigger than 2 gens ago and that isn't right. Also, never see MINI's around, cars and coffee and the like, why is that because it's such an enthusists car but yet you never seen them except driven as commuter cars by people who are certainly not enthusiasts. Have a great day and I'll be looking for you around the streets of Chicagoland, line em up!

as an ex- owner of a R53 i cant agree more with you. The current mini is too big and expansive as hell.

ChaosphereIX i was thinking about getting an f56 JCW but it's big and boring compared to the R53, I've just had my hydraulic clutch done which wasn't cheap but my god, I can't replace the car

the supercharged version was gutless. I much prefer the new gen.

Gee Tee you are so wrong. It was lighter, more nimble, and had no turbo lag at all. Not gutless. With a 15-17% pulley swap and some basic bolt-ons, well over 200hp is easily attainable from the tiny 1.6. Plus, it didn't run into a heat wall like the turbos did [speaking from experience working on R53 and R56 MINIs].

ChaosphereIX I'm talking standard. You could save weight and make changes to the turbo versions too but then it's a different car. Standard SC was slow, gutless and my NA Clio was miles more fun and faster. The current version feels miles ahead of previous gens.

you have a Sat-Nav, its called Goggle maps, its on your phone ;) ....as is your favorite playlist from whatever music streeming service you got ;) ...as for air-con, just get a droptop and open up the roof for fresh air ;) lol

Really? Who bought it?

Farhan Ahmad Tajuddin yup i saw it in carlist.my. but i think people already bought it

Khalid Ansari Focus RS and mass deprecation do not go together! MK2 RS's still hold at £20.000 regardless of mileage! And the MK3 will be no exception! MK3 Will follow the same route!

Khalid Ansari Ok so boring people?

Yup because anyone who buys a car with 250+ BHP is a boring person.

Was joking but like no denying compared to the RS this doesn't make a whole load of sense but then again guess this will be much better for track driving

S Miller financially it does. It will depreciate so much less than an RS.

(Gt.) Britain doesn't include N.I. just the main island of Britania, (Eng, Scot, Wales), as named by Romans I beleive. ....England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Isle of White, Channel Islands and Hebredes make up the United Kingdom, (of Gt Birtain, N.I. and the islands, excl. I.O.M. )

WE don't think we're special, BMW thinks we are ;) or rather they might think we have a special affinity for Minis, (historic?) or that our roads/cities are specifically suited to a small car with a bit of power ;) (America would prob force HUGE rubber bumpers onit if it wor made in Britain;)

I wonder how a 427 GT40 wud fair against a SC-1600 Cooper-S ....on the narrow country roads of England, with short straights and MANY tight corners ;)

It doesn't sound like rice. A turbo and unequal length headers gives it a deeper, mellow sound. You're probably listening to it on your tiny cellphone speakers. There's a lot of "bass" you're missing out on

....and ? btr value than a Rolex or Italian loafers ;)

.... and ? Still not a real Mini.

@@geoffreygover-sharpe4642 Nah. It's btr, its a BMW in Mini's clothing, German emgineering, (exquisite in detail) with British styling, (yh, baby:) Originals were awefull tin cans that fold up in a 'T'Bone collision ^^, have no suspension to speak of, (rubber donuts only) and top out at about 65mph ;)

But real Minis are fun, whereas modern “Minis” are dull and soulless.