Mini Cooper JCW is brilliantly bonkers

Fans of bonkers motoring — myself included, it has to be said — like it hot. The really blistering motors truly are those which get the adrenaline flowing simply by looking at them — the really good stuff follows when you get to crank them up.

Cars like the much anticipated and forthcoming Ford Focus RS, the VW Golf R, the Audi RS3, the BMW M235i, and Honda Civic Type R, are all imbued with truly hardcore DNA and while they might be less exotic than a lot of the much more expensive machinery available out there, they do provide the opportunity for ordinary people to experience extraordinary performance.

Ok, so some of these things are not exactly as cheap as chips, but they are not extraordinarily expensive either and they can fulfil a practical family role in day to day motoring whilst also offering the sort of grunt that is not that far shy of supercar proportions. They thus qualify to have the ‘bonkers’ moniker attached.