get to know the the difference among Mini Coopers, Hardtop, Clubman and John Cooper Works

What is the difference between the types of Mini Coopers? Hardtop, Clubman, John Cooper Works, etc?—by Kacko
I know someone knows something about Mini Coopers. I am looking to buy one soon, but I just want to make sure I have all my facts straight first.

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2009 MINI Cooper Hardtop John Cooper Works

Best Answer —By Martin B
There are three body types:The basic hatchback version.The convertible.The Clubman, which is like a small wagon, with a third door (hinged at the back) on the right side, and dual doors rather than a hatch, for the rear.Each body type is available in the three stages of tune: Cooper, Cooper S and JCW.In the USA, all Mini’s are Mini Coopers (in the rest of the world there are non-Cooper Minis, including diesel engines).The Cooper is the basic Mini. Normal engine, without turbocharging.The Cooper S adds a more powerful turbocharged engine (in current models, or supercharged in the previous generation cars), plus other differences with transmissions, suspension, trim, etc.The JCW is a Cooper S on steroids, with more power, stiffer suspension, etc.

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  1. Vote -1 Vote +1NS Dude on 15 October 2009:

    thanks,Here I’m looking forward to get a mini cooper but don’t know the difference between “s” and regular?
    Hello everyone.

    I want to get a mini cooper, the normal one(hardtop I believe is called).
    I went to the official site to read about the differences between the regular mini cooper and the mini cooper s. I don’t know much about cars so it was hard to understand all the info. the website provided.

    so I want to know the differences between the mini cooper and the mini cooper s?

    I decided to come here because of my poor knowledge of cars. If I go to a dealership they’re gonna try to trick me (I feel).

    Also is it true that mini coopers are stick shift?

    Is it hard to learn how to drive stick shift?

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    Vote -1 Vote +1Erik Reply:

    The difference between the cooper and cooper S is that the S stands for Sport and therefor the Cooper S has more horsepower, a sport suspension and a turbocharger. If your not a car person i don’t recommend the S because it’s a harsher ride and you probably don’t care about the extra speed. As to your second question no not all MINI Cooper are sticks, the MINI today have automatics with paddle shifter that let you choose between manual mode that lets you shift the car yourself but doesn’t use a clutch or automatic mode with runs the same way all automatics do.

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