Mini JCW GP2 review (26/06/2013)

THE joys attached to this job are many and varied: driving nice new cars every week, the occasional opportunity to travel to faraway places to drive them and the sheer thrill of being allowed to drive things which you know few, if any, of your contemporaries will

And so it was recently with the latest machine from Mini — the John Cooper Works GP2 — of which only 2,000 will be made and which is the fastest (thus far) car the company has manufactured. Despite any of the other benefits of being a motoring hack, being allowed to drive cars such as this really makes this job worthwhile.

We’ve been down this road before with Mini, what with the Cooper S being the company’s first foray into to performance world, followed by the first JCW version and now the arrival of this JCW GP2 version which has yet again upped the ante in the performance stakes and will itself become a valued and expensive icon.