I really hate that they dropped the hood scoop and the twin exhaust pipes on the S.

My hamster is currently missing, is he in a BMW steering wheel? You've got to hand it to BMW for the 20 year-plus success of the Mini revival. The 3-door still remains the best and by far the most charming; the other versions are clumsy and Mini in name only.

Great review Tim. Your humour is right up my street. Keep up the great content. 😊

...And you were a good boy by keeping your hands where they should be, unlike your latest bike review! Your vids always a real pleasure Tim, v much apprec'd.

15:50 Even the i20N has now been discontinued. There is shockingly little left in this class

Recent subscriber but glad I’ve discovered ya. Honest reviews and just an all round nice chap 😃

Great review with humor and (for me) honestly. I don't care about the bad comments cause I drove both s and c and I loved them. I was going to buy the aF56 but thankfully I ordered the F66 which is a step up in all fields for me. Ok I wanted the visible exhaust but I can live without it at the time till I decide to do something about it. Thanks again for your perspective!

Great review test driving a cooper S today

Lovely in British racing green🍺🍺🇬🇧🇬🇧

Karmon hardon 😂😂😂😂

I love one exactly in the same spec as yours although in Royal blue or Midnight orange both colours with carbon detailing 😎👌

The glossy black wheel arches look nice.. But you need your own detailer after 3 month. I bet

It's a fun hot/warm light class of hatch so automatically a 👍🏻 from me as they are now sadly a rarity (one reason of many i have no plans on selling my swift sport). Rear end isnt terrible, i don't mind it. Is it a pass for the lift off oversteer segment of the hooliganism through a roundabout test? 🤣 JCW badging, just like amg/M badges on non AMG/M cars lol. Also good video 👍🏻

I love a mini. I'm always tempted to go pick one up

Fantastic ❤

I enjoyed your review. I was originally turned off by there not being a drivers display, but seems like that optional head up thing makes up for it. Actually prefer the look to the old one as well, which I thought always looked a bit too overdone. Good to see a nippy mini is still an option

I've got a F56 Cooper S with the JCW Tuning Kit. The new interior looks very cheap. The F56 interior is way better than this one.

As someone who's spent far too long in the mini configurator recently a quick note on the option pack prices: the costs in the video are for the base Cooper. The Cooper S gets the Level 1 pack as standard on all trim levels and knocks £2k off the price of the level 2 and 3 packs. As a result Cooper S gets Level 2 as an option on the Classic and Level 3 on Exclusive or above while the base Cooper is Level 1 only for the Classic, up to 2 for Exclusive, 3 for Sport. Had a poke around one of these last weekends and was honestly impressed. Interior feels very spacious though why BMW / Mini reflexively insist on calling the rear bag holders seats is beyond me. Love the material switch away from leather and the fake version they're using on seats and wheel feels pretty damn good. That screen really works and after seeing a lot of the BMW bits show up in the new 1 series (and then seeing the 1 series pricing) the Cooper suddenly looks like a bit of a bargain. My only real concern is the ride as this would have to do daily hundred-mile round trip motorway commutes so have to get one out on the road sometime soon.

I'll keep my 2015 Cooper S 3 door thanks. 🚙

What do you think of the dash material? Will be ordering a JCW variant when they come out in the states

I love Minis as I've had a few, but I'm having a hard time with the lack of buttons. If you have a family though, I'd go with the countryman. Still plenty of pep.

Glad you had fun. A few nights away from the kids have clearly had some effects 😀 They’ve never been my thing at all, but I can’t believe there is no man-box! i20n is gone already 😢😢😢 Btw, the Mini has a longer wheelbase than a 911 😮

If you own a F66 you’d probably leave the physical keys at home and just use the andriod / apple wallet unlock feature which I do with my MINI J01 electric.

To me, the last and the end of the Mini was with my little Mini Cooper S R56. All the rest are over fatted.

Lease is ending next year..... head says Octavia.... heart says Cooper S! What I need is a Cooper with a Tardis in the boot!!

7:40 I'm from the USA and really appreciate your video. Are Racoons indigenous to the UK, or are they an invasive species? I kinda though the US was the home of the Racoon.

They’ve done a good job on the hatch but I don’t know what they were thinking with the new Countryman.

I’ll stick with my 2024 USA version with the manual transmission. Got it because I wanted a Mini, your new one is too modern for me. Maybe for the younger driver. Good video.

Oh no! I hate no hood scoops. I’ve had an ‘04, ‘09 and ‘21 Cooper S. All manual transmissions. The final year of gas/petrol engines will be my next MINI…as long as a manual transmission is available.

How many kg of downforce does the rear diffuser and en-vogue double roof spoiler (stolen from mg4 Xpower) add? Oh, ok. I still approve of the 3dr and really quite like it. Cheers Tim, glad you had some fun in it

but has the fuel consumption got any better than the out going models

Can you get the cooper S with the jcw look?

You can shut the fake engine noise and believe or not it was only in the Go-Kart Mode that the fake engine noises come on. It called MINI Sound. Turn it off and it sounds great.

Maybe I've missed something but I thought the JCW badges were exclusive to that model? Or is it like R line VWs using the R badge?

So now nearly every Mini is a John Cooper Works just like nearly every BMW is an ///M-car... I was very interested to learn about the different models - the Chinese one vs the Oxford one.

Tim Rodie Drives Stuff really like your motteh thaleh because of watched it so adding my comments 🤣😂😅😃😀😉

Wait wtf i had to stop at 4:45.. no manual anymore... OKkkkayyy.. NO MORE EXHASUT PIPES ? u serious??!

An ICE? What's the point?

That back end... YUCK! Interior looks nice. Front end is all Mini which is good.

So a what £36k Cooper S. 😮 with tarty works badges when it’s not. Slowly chipping away the character. We have had five two currently on the drive. Experience mode, I’d rather have Sport, Normal, Eco and obviously there is no manual option now. I have heard the box is not too bad. This Car in Electric guise is £43k. Why is the key phob a TV control. 😢 Same S engine with a different map? Thinking Electric next so will wait to see what the new Electric Renault 5 comes in at. Mini just too expensive for what they are.

No bonnet scoop “look” or visible exhaust. How boring!

A great car…if it didn’t look that 💩from behind. And the pricing wasn’t that outrageous

That interior makes the FIAT 500 look like a luxury car. Congrats BMW, you´ve succeded in making this new Mini uglier than the previous gen, just to keep up with tradition

These are 2025 not 2024, idk what it is about ppl overseas with their car dates haha

Are we awake yet?

Wow, a comments section not full of false hate. Nice car, must test.

In the states we won't get JCW _TRIM_ only legit JCWs later on this year - and less deceit (we leave the deceit to our government)... all the F66 are '25 model years we have 2024 as the F56. I'd love to replace my bonnet stripes with those on my 2024 (F56) JCW and the new JCW logo is growing on me....

"The ride is a bit firm?" WTF do you expect in a Mini Cooper S?" That's like saying "The ride is a bit smooth in a Rolls Royce or Bentley!"

this thing is like 50k lmao

The rear end is a design disaster,

Sounds crappy compared to previous model can’t even see the exhaust

"still a small car" . . . . . with a price of a SUV . . . .

Lets make cheap interior in all laggy screen lets remove all the nice feeling switches from old one lets put cheap fabric charge more money and yes lets do back and of a suzuki swift from 6 years ago sure its much better then f56 lci… this reviews have to be positiv they wont get another car back