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Spotted: MINI Countryman Championship Edition

To celebrate its entry into the WRC, MINI have made available a special edition add-on package for the Countryman dubbed MINI Championship Edition. For your R20K you get the John Cooper Works Aerodynamic body kit, Coolant Temperature and Torque gauges, additional headlights (“spotlights”), a sports antenna, and the decals on the side. The JCW aero [...]

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Video: Dani Sordo in the MINI WRC Race Car – Sardinia Country Roads to Motorways

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MINI WRC Team. 1st Rally Sardinia, 05 to 08 May. Saturday, 07 May, Kris Meeke in the MINI John Cooper Works WRC

The MINI John Cooper Works WRC to make British debut.

Dani Sordo will drive the MINI John Cooper Works WRC on its British debut this weekend at the Cornbury Park Rally Show, fresh from securing a superb sixth place finish at Rally Italy and where the MINI WRC Team made its first ever appearance. The MINI WRC Team driver will put the car through its [...]

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VIDEO: Paddy Hopkirk MINI WRC Monte Carlo Rally comeback

The Mini living motorsport legend re-enters the World Rally Championship almost 50 years after Paddy Hopkirk made history by winning the Monte Carlo Rally with a Mini in 1964. Kris Meeke fellow Irishman will be driving the new MINI Countryman prepared by Prodrive in forthcoming WRC Rallies.

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Visitors to the Geneva Motor Show are given a foretaste of the MINI John Cooper Works WRC – MINI Motorsport website goes live.

Geneva, 1 March 2011. On Tuesday, the 81st International Geneva Motor Show (CH) provided the stage for MINI to unveil the MINI John Cooper Works S2000 – the latest milestone on the road to the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). This is the forerunner to the MINI John Cooper Works WRC, which the MINI WRC [...]

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