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    SUPER COOPER

    Jun 17, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS OLLIE KEW
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    ROWAN HORNCASTLE

    The fuel filler cap irks me. It’s in same position as usual, but the John Cooper Works GP is not The Usual Mini. Not only is this the most powerful, fastest Mini ever built for the public highway, it also wrests from the Honda Civic Type R its dubious ‘most outrageous body kit on sale’ title. And yet… that little filler cap ruins the effect. Just how functional – how necessary exactly – are those wafery carbon-fibre wheelarch ‘blades’, if one is scarred by a divot where the super unleaded goes in?

    Take a stroll around the new GP and more unease creeps in. How seriously are we supposed to take this car? As per all turbo

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