SMALL BUT SPEEDY
Newsweek, March, 2007 by TARA WEINGARTEN
When the Mini Cooper folks took me and a few other automotive journalists to a racetrack to test these new second-generation coupes, it had the trappings of a joke. We're talking about a subcompact city car, not a Ferrari, right? But instead of laughing, I whooped it up. Ninety-five miles per hour in a hair over 15 seconds, and 0 to 60 in a respectable 6.7 seconds. Yeah, baby.
OK, so I get that BMW, which owns the Mini, tore it up engineering this car to exude performance. This redone four-seater comes in a choice of two engines: a 1.6-liter, four-cylinder, 118hp version, or the S, which is supercharged and makes 172hp. Both have torque pull at any speed, and both get a standard sport button that tightens the shocks for better handling. The new all-aluminum engine...
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