The quintessential Mini Cooper will always be the two-door Hardtop. Both the regular Cooper and Cooper S are fine everyday ...

YOU may have noticed that I’m driving a Mini. It’s petrol. With a big sunroof. And lots of John Cooper Works attitude ... Even the return of a centrally-mounted exhaust.

In a departure from the outgoing version, the ‘Cooper’ badge denotes the primary model name for the new Mini hatch, rather than ... round OLED display mounted to the dash – measuring 24cm ...