I’ve had my JCW for 2 years now and it still makes me smile when I put my foot down. So much grunt and it’s one of the best sounding hot hatches out there!

Just stumble across this reviewer and impressed. This is how I will expect a proper car review to be done!!! Well done and keep up the good work!!👍🏾

Thanks for the review. I've been going nuts waiting for my new JCW to be made and shipped from the UK to California, so I've been watching your video repeatedly. This will be my 3rd MINI. I can hardly wait!

Great video and channel. I've just specced one of these at my dealer, £37,500 with all of the JCW pro parts installed. Torn between this car and a GP2. MINIs just get under your skin like no other cars, I've been lucky enough to have an e60 M5 and an M6 GC currently but still miss my r53 jcw massively. I think it is the exploitable power, balance and drivability that is just fantastic for our UK roads. These cars give you the feeling like you can't possibly go any faster down a stretch of road, which in itself I can attest is an untruth, but you simply cannot use my M6's power for more than a few seconds without fearing for the consequences!! Keep the great MINI content and reviews coming. Thanks, Patrick.

Remember watching this video 2 and a half years wow the nostalgia.

Thank you very much for your honest feeling about the technology. Wishing you all the best with your intelligence.

Finally a good looking guy reviewing Mini's. 😃

Nice review. I had one of these until my little one was born, was a sad day trading it in for a Countryman S... so much so I couldn't resist and pick up my secondhand R58 JCW this week as our second car. Thank you for the comparison!

Excellent......loved every minute of the road test, & guess what I bought same model yesterday!!! Yay 😆

love you Petrol Ped! crashed my 2013 cooper S a few weeks back and have been devastated! She's getting fixed and will be back soon> Love Minis, my little kite blue S is my second and can't picture myself in anything else...except maybe a JCW. accident wasn't my fault by the way, and my baby took the impact like a champ.

Great review! I was waiting for this one to see your thoughts compared to my own. 👍

Thumbs up, really loved this review of the JCW. Thinking to buy one and your review made me closer to setting myself up with the dealer to sign the buy. Thank you for great review and footage. Cheers from Sweden

My first car was a suped up clubman in red, 30 years later I want another !!

PP - I really love this video mate considering that my local Mini dealer lent me a F56 JCW with the auto box a few days ago. And like you, I loved it too. The 8 speed auto box I had was simply gorgeous. Moving it into sport mode and into manual, was a dream. 6th gear. Want to drop down into 4th to overtake. Tap, tap on the paddles and away you go. I've the Cooper S R56 and everything you said about the JCW I agree on. Ride comfort being quite astounding from my car.

The driving excitement shows engine power in KW by default. You can change it to HP in the settings but it is a mission to find. Great comprehensive review

Ive just bought one if these, great review. Im sure i will love the car

great video Peter. Haven't driven a mini for some time...but even the basic ones are good fun. Can't imagine how good these hot ones are!

Great review. It would be fantastic to see a review of the 2017 Mini Clubman JCW in the near future, if possible.

really really exciting and cool video I really like it

love the interior

Really great video! I think you deserve way more subscribers because you are right up there with Mr JWW and SeenThroughGlass in my honest opinion. Keep all the good work and you should get some more

Hopefully this will be my next Mini, currently driving a R56. Great video

Best JCW F56 review so far! maybe a bit late, but I just ordered my jcw mt 3 months ago and it will be arrive here in HK end of Sep ~ still 3 months to go >_< I'm currently driver R50 One MT,

I had never watched this review when I bought my F56 which is a surprise. My one is the lighter grey but fairly similar otherwise with a couple of extra options. It is as you said a bit more grown up from my previous Fiesta ST and Peugeot GTI but I don't think I would part with it now.

Superb video Peter as usual, now here's the thing, buy a new or nearly new Mini Cooper S or JCW for at least £25,000(£35,000 plus for a specced one) or get my Roadster S Manic tuned to around 235-250BHP, upgrade the brakes and maybe exhaust as well for say £5-6,000 or less and get more performance than even a JCW(admittedly the power delivery will not be as smooth as a new 2016 Mini), and keep the ever getting rarer Roadster S and only two seats, it's a tough choice.

Hi Pete, Really enjoying your vlogs and now that you've done the Q&A its clear your real job helps with the relaxed yet professional presenting style. Keep it up! Anyway - I'm caught between choosing a JCW or a Cooper S and have just spotted a Works 210 as an option. Have you ever looked at this and did you have any views? That Bluetooth exhaust upgrade sounds incredible. Cheers. Chris

The JCW pro exhaust really finish it off well.

Do you feel that the F56 Mini feels slower than your stage 2 Roadster s? Also, with a modded F56, do you feel it’s faster than the second gen? When I test drove the F56 I felt that it handled well, but it didn’t feel as thrilling or gokart like to drive. What do you think?

Great review! Did they borrow the remote control to open the valve on that pro jcw exhaust? Cheers

I am a automotive technician and i know the advantage of straight cut gears over helical cut gears. The straight cut gears will increase the torque and road speed at the wheels tremendously especially in lower gear just like the classic. Maybe John Cooper son who took over his dad legacy should share the technology with BMW to build straight cut gears for racing performance. Most of the excort mk1 and mk2 rally or track uses straight cut gears with cosworth engine.

Awswome machine.

Peter... would you swap it with RubyRoadster? Still think yours looks pretty cool! Love the centre console/dash and lighting ...colour way smart too.

Have you reviewed the Countryman? If not, do you have plans to? Thanks!

The Cooper S is also 2L turbo :)

They should make the manual gearbox gears straight cut like the classic mini . I think you would get a lot more road speed in the lower gears.

I have a 2017 manual cooper s 5 door 7 edition.Before I got it I tried a jcw but when the wife saw the boot space it was a firm no 😥

is this one come with cable? www.evolveautomotive.com/evolve-ecu-remap-performance-upgrade-mini-f56-jcw-manual.html do you ship to HKG? car software updated by the dealer few months ago, is this still work?

Enjoy your vids, especially the BMW 435d Hartge. Have you driven the AC Schnitzer JCW MINI? Look better and more aggressive to me and it is how the JCW should have looked in the first place

Hey Ped, do you know why the Mini hatch does not have the 306BHP like the Clubman?

Focus ST interior will fee incredibly dull after this. Its certainly one place the mini Excells

ok so...... compared to the JCW clubman with 306 BHP, how does it compare? I guess even with less power it feels a bit sportier right? Any easy mods to bring up the 230 HP and is it really worth it? i ask as I think I will get a convertible one...for 19k you cant go wrong, 2 years old..approx, especially if you have the weather, which I do.. :)

It sounds different because it's got the optional exhaust system on it.

Nice car and vid not too sure about the red accents tho, personal taste I suppose.

Are these good? How would you say it compares to the I30N or your Clubman JCW?

Looks like that model had the 'JCW pro kit' but you didn't have the remote control to open up the exhaust flap.

Hi excellent review buddy😊🌈

Nice video by the way😂

That car has the JCW Pro exhaust that is operated by a remote control that sits in the right hand cup holder. Unless Mini took it out for some strange reason it should have been there for you to have fun with. Shame you missed out on that

Would you rather have a jcw or the mk8 fiesta st?

this the jcw going to buy in the next few mouths i hope

its very quiet. Plus an LSD would be expected at that price

15:35 Dead bird on road totally ignored 😀

The driving excitement gauge is in kw not in hp

i think that car has the jcw pro exhaust which has a handheld switch for the exhaust valve. the exhaust should be a lot louder!

It had the pro exhaust with closed valves 😂😂 that’s why it’s so silent

Love Mini's, but I cant help though being put off by their bad reputation for unreliability and expensive repair costs. Maybe as as second car/weekend warrior? I don't think I would want to have to rely on one on a day-to-day basis. It's more of a toy rather than a car you can be sure it will get you where you need to go on a consistent basis. When the "new" Mini's came out as a retro to the original Sir Alec Issigonis Coopers I was excited, but when it came time to contemplate owning one and what that would entail then reality set in. Sort of like meeting your hero and being disappointed because in reality they are different from their persona.

Thanks for the review. I like the car, but... I am a bit concerned that it is not a "relaxed" car and by that I mean this is a car which likes to be driven fast and agressive or ....rather it makes you to do it and that is great, but at the end of the day you are not going to sprint from A to B everyday. And here I see the problem (for me) as my issue or maybe I am wrong...I guess this is not a nice handling car and at the same time relaxed, is it? I watched your review of the new civic couple days ago and have a feeling that civic is more like an "all-rounder"... On the price. Yes, it's very expensive. For the money you can have more powerfull and bigger hot hatch, but on that matter my feedback is that Mini is very unique - it is that distinctive car, which does give you a nice image, ar at least this is what I think. One more thing, in a family there is a MINI JCV bught brand new, but the previous one with 1.6 turbo. After 50k km there was a massive engine failuire. I have heard that these engines were faulty, I am aware that that new JCW has different 2.0, but still not convinced for its reliability etc.

Yes it stops... but no sadly it doesn't grip on either of the factory tyres very well, Dunlop and Pirelli. If you want to check out my F56 JCW thats almost identical to the one in the video visit @jcwjaycee on Instagram

At last a proper BMW engine, good riddance to the N14 Prince engine with its multitude of issues.

maybe is more bmw like than mini..

Is very out of the real mini,its more like a saloon car compare the past version mini.

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Well i rather have the noise of the straight cut gears and have a better performance maybe fly pass your car.

They made the bonnet way too long. Just doesn't look like a mini anymore....

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The F56 looks sinfully ugly with those absurd lower air intakes on the front. Luckily the 2018 update is supposed alleviate that issue. The size is another issue, as it looks bloated next to an R55-59 Mini, and the headlights just aren't doing it for me either.

Sorry but it’s R53 for me. They’re just getting too big & ugly now. And as for all those JCW badges, well, it just looks too much.

Dreadful cars , overpriced , cramped and unless you drive on a completely smooth surface extremely uncomfortable ,avoid

aren't you supposed to be in a nursing home