Performance MINI

HANDLING. STYLING. POWER

Remember a time before Covid? Seems ages ago, doesn’t it? But back before the world was held ransom by a virus, things were ticking along quite nicely, and Andy Tan went shopping for a new car.

“All I wanted was something reliable. I’d always liked the MINI, and I bought this car on Christmas Eve - before the whole coronavirus pandemic struck,” remembers Andy.

So, Andy popped into his local MINI dealer in Singapore, and drove away in a box-fresh F56 JCW. That, for many people, would be the end of the story. And there’s nothing wrong with that - the JCW is a brilliant car straight from the factory - but it would make this an incredibly short, and pretty boring, feature…

But, you guessed it, Andy’s story doesn’t end with the arrival of the coronavirus; instead, that’s where this

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