BMW MINI John Cooper Works is available in Malaysia now at Auto Bavaria and Sapura Auto showrooms. The price is at MYR279,000. An auto Bavaria and Sapura Auto showroom is located strategically in the City Centre at Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur. The Mini John Cooper Works ( Mini JCW ) engine is 1.6liter turbocharged engine gets boosted up to 211hp, with peak torque now at 260Nm (280Nm overboost) from as low as 1,850rpm. The MINI JCW is only available with a 6-speed manual, reflecting its more hardcore nature as compared to the Cooper S.

What make Mini John Cooper Works so special are the sports suspension, carbon fiber rear spoiler and JCW aerodynamic kit. All the body kit items serve aerodynamic functions instead of being just for aesthetics. This design helps to improve handling and road-holding especially at high speed for Mini.

Mini John Cooper Works has also come with 17 inch light alloys wheels. Each of these wheel are less than 10kg and it comes with 205/45R18W high speed run flat tyres, it is an amazing setting for Mini. Mini JCW has an improve version over the normal DSC which added DTC to it. DTC only activated when the Mini really about to get into trouble and allow the driver to have more fun with Mini especially turning a corner in a high speed.

The interior for JCW is done in Piano Black with Anthracite roof lining. For the exterior, it has comes in Black, Lighting Blue, British Racing Green which same with the classic Mini John Cooper Works, Laser Blue, Pure Silver, Dark Silver, and Sparkling Silver metallic, or Chili Red and Pepper White non-metallic.

Sapura Auto showroom has recently unveiled the first of its kind MINI 4S (Sales, Service, System and Spare parts). As the new MINI facility encompasses an entire one and a half floor’s of Sapura Auto’s current 60,000 square feet of four storey BMW 4S centre, its concept and architecture of facility reflects the essence of the MINI brand and complies with its stringent international-class specifications.