Guess The Mind Boggling Price of The Most Expensive Mini Cooper In America
I'll give you a hint, it's starts with a 4.
I'm sure if I should laugh, cry, or email the dealer and ask if it's a mistake, but the most expensive new Mini in America is listed for $48,645. A staggering request for a tiny premium hatchback.
Before you claim this claim is fake, I give you the cold hard evidence.
Asking almost $50,000 for a Mini Cooper John Cooper Works is just so insane I can't even think of a good analogy. This Mini has exhausted my will for needless hyperbole and all I can say is, "holy shit that's a lot of money."
If you're keeping score at home you can buy many many faster or more luxurious cars for $48,645 and since I'm addicted to Cars.com searches heres a small list below.
If you go the used car route and want performance you can easily pick up an M4 or Corvette Stingray with the Z51 package. Both of this cars will blow the Mini out of the water. If you want luxury you can buy a brand new superb Volvo S90 sedan, which is one of the nicest places to be on planet earth. Finally if you're looking for sheer size and metal you can pick up a rare 6-speed manual dually pick up truck with ease!
Now the Mini Cooper JCW is a very fun and impressive hot hatchback, but there's a trap. Mini uses the exact same wallet seeking missiles developed by its parent company BMW to take everything they can from you.
You can easily spend tens of thousands of dollars on union jack stickers and carbon fiber trimmings but in the end you're buying a Mini Cooper not an M2. I can't personally make out any incredible options on this particular car that would warrant a price knocking on the door of $50,00.
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From right here in Australia... the equivalent of US $50, 718...
Nope but I would happily sell you one....
Mini's are expensive in UK aswell. It's due to its parent company BMW.
thats nothing, you can buy an audi rs3 for just 96000€
Comparing a Mini to a Volvo and conclude that the Mini is too expensive doesn't make sense without any other context. People don't realise that your average mass produce cars, irrespectively of size, cost almost the same to manufacture; why would the Volvo you posted be more expensive than the Mini, does it genuinely cost that much more to make? They have the same number of wheels, the same number of engines, the same number of driveshafts, transmissions, dampers, brakes, electronic modules, body panels, light bulbs, seat belts, probably airbags, hell, even the same number of seats. A longer wheelbase doesn't add a great deal more to the manufacturing cost. In fact, I would go as far as say that the JCW has had more development time put into it and, historically, John Cooper Works was never a cheap upgrade over base Mini. Large cars offer greater margins exactly because of our perception that, somehow, they cost that much more to make, which is why everyone is hell bent on making SUVs. Just add slightly better plastics, silver trim around the buttons, an extra screen (with picture quality from the '90s), two air vents at the back and Bob's your uncle, flog them at twice (or more) the price of the smaller car in the range. So yes, I fully understand why a fully loaded JCW would cost the same as a run of the mill S90 Momentum, even in T6 trim, or a RAM. Would I buy one though? I think I would rather get a second hand Stingray ;-)
But why sell a JCW for $50,000 when someone can go somewhere else and get the exact same car for half the price?
A brand new 2018 JCW for under $25k (£18k)? I'd buy it for that, here they start at $35k (£25k) for the base manual hatchback and without any options. And they're made here, too! So, out of curiosity, I configured the base hatchback on the...
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