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From what Ive heard its the tyres on the 182 that makes it handle better (apparently). Apart from that they are both pretty much the same. Theres a yellow 182 around my way that looks fantastic and Id be tempted if the car was slightly easier to tune!

Haha sounds like a plan my friend! Perhaps you can get your mate in his CTR and Ill get Carl to bring his Focus RS. We can do our own EVO Magazine style test!! :D

Youre speedo will under read mate, dont worry (all cars do this). At 78mph on the speedo, youre probably doing a GPS speed of about 72mph. The faster you go the more inaccurate it gets as well. At 110mph on my speedo Im reading 99mph on the GPS!

Haha I wouldnt talk about it even in the same league as the M3/M5 type cars, but they do have BMW build quality, well at least mine does! Yeah its good fun but its a small hatch, same as the Clio. Theres loads of them about, but then again, theres loads of Clios, Fiestas, CTRs etc. The only...

Might not get close to 20k when I sell it, but when I had it valued in Jan I was told that if they (John Cooper Garage) were to buy it, I’d get between 20-22k for it. It’s not a bad price considering the higher mileage I’ve got on it now. Still we’ll see, some dealers would try to get it for a...

The turbo version comes out in 2007 so it wont be until around about then that the prices will take a hit (hence me selling mine next year). Your mate must have been ripped off by the dealer if they offered him 15k for it. My mums car was sold last month (on an 02 plate) back to the dealership...

But the JCW Mini isnt standard either, its an aftermarket (although approved) modification. Yeah I could have gone out and got a second hand Scooby or something like that, but every man and his dog has one of those and I like having something a bit different. Also as I said before I use...

This is quite old, but gives you an idea of the kind of times people are getting: <A target=_blank href= "http://www.ross-tech.net/andy/mini/dragracing/quartermile.htmlhttp://www.ross-tech.net/andy/mini/dragracing/quartermile.html JCW = John Cooper Works as in John Cooper, the founder of the...

I’ve driven both the 172 cup (my mates car) and have myself a Cooper S Works. A few things. 230bhp? Unless he’s tuned it further it won’t have 230bhp. Mine is probably touching the 220bhp mark and that’s with a replacement manifold and sports cat on. To get to 230bhp he’d need a smaller...