[Winston]

Hiyah Folks 👋🏻

been an age since I was last on here and now I’m posting twice in the same Day!!

So as the title says I’m looking for some info on the above car currently available on the scheme.

i have the F56 John Cooper Works in the Premium Plus Trim level

So Mini have no renamed their trim levels to be called Class 1,2 and 3

However on the MB there is no mention of the Trim Level / Class Level

In all the other adverts the Class Level is clearly listed

Someone must’ve forgot to add this relevant piece of info

have spoken to MB earlier today regarding something else , I did ask this same question but they didn’t know and ask me to contact the Dealer which I have and waiting for a reply ( as you do )

So I’m just asking if anyone has looked into this particular car on offer at the moment and has that missing but crucial piece of inflrmation

 

thanks in advance

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[Glos Guy]

I’m afraid that I can’t answer your question Winston, but I just wanted to say it’s good to have you back!

[Vaun]

Hi

on the mini configuration tool, the mini 3 door John cooper works is a stand alone model, when you look at the options, it seems level 1, is part of John cooper works model, level 2 is £1300, level 3 is an eye watering £3,800.

hope this helps,  level 2 seems to be worth it.

Cheers, all the very best

Vaun

[mitch]

hi winston,

as vaun says mini have changed the way the cars are designated the jcw is stand alone now and on the mini model screen youu select jcw which brings up all the jcw models cooper,aceman and countryman.

then the styles is sport which automatically gets you level one pack. if you want level 2 £1300 level 3 3800.

hope that helps

good to have you back.

 

 

[mitch]

@winston, sorry if this is granny teaching you to suck eggs, ive checked the mini site.

on the mini home screen select models and configorator at the top.

then on left hand menu select jcw below the individual models.

the screen that then comes up accross to the right select configure this mini.

5 individual jcw’s will come up 4th one along is the cooper select this.

then your into the usual configoration system the style is automatically sport as its jcw.

pick your colours and interior any stripes etc.

then its your packs, level 1 is inclded as standard the rest are options.

its a phaff for jcw now.

 

[Winston]

Hey folks

thanks for the replies

Oh believe me Ive built about 6 different JCW’s already

im not sure if yous remember the options available 3 years ago? I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night lol

so my model F56 came with a lot of kit as you can imagine, the 2 trim levels available were Premium & Premium Plus. Which are now called  Class 2 & Class 3 those packs are still the same price

If i remember correctly the JCW  Advance Payment including  The Premium Pack was £3000

With the Premium Plus Pack it was £3500

it was fantastic value getting a pack worth £3800 for £500

so that’s all I was looking to find out

the dealer came back to me this evening and at this this time they are only offering 1 JCW configuration and that with Level 1

to me that’s disappointing, even though as standard it comes with good kit I like the toys and things to figure out that others don’t like

i could live with level 2 but I’m not prepared to pay the best part of £5.5k

as we know with Motability the cars and offers can change quickly and not just every quarter.

its one of those MB dilemmas do you wait and see if they ad on a more attractive package and run the risk of it dropping off completely.

atleast for today im happy to wait it out. But ill be checking that Motability website daily 🤣

so thanks again for the replies , if I do uncover any updates I’ll certainly post them

Thanks Glos, very kind words.. I hope you and the family are happy and well, same with you Mitch and the rest of the guys

I’ll be popping on more often

hope u all have a great weekend

 

cheers

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[MFillingham]

Whilst I have no idea about Minis in particular, I would say that this year isn’t going to be a fun one. We’re still expecting the VAT to be applied to APs from July and you’ll have to assume that’s not on the potential list for U-Turns.  Thus what currently is £3,799 would then become £4,558 if everything else stayed as it is.  Also, it’s a specialist car, which has been labeled as not being of Motability’s core offering, which has often resulted in being withdrawn. I’d not want to initiate anyone’s anxiety but I was surprised to see the JCW appear and I’d be even more surprised if it lasted the year.

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[Glos Guy]

MFillingham wrote:

Whilst I have no idea about Minis in particular, I would say that this year isn’t going to be a fun one. We’re still expecting the VAT to be applied to APs from July and you’ll have to assume that’s not on the potential list for U-Turns. Thus what currently is £3,799 would then become £4,558 if everything else stayed as it is. Also, it’s a specialist car, which has been labeled as not being of Motability’s core offering, which has often resulted in being withdrawn. I’d not want to initiate anyone’s anxiety but I was surprised to see the JCW appear and I’d be even more surprised if it lasted the year.

I agree with every word. Very sound advice. With the way that Motability is going, a car like the Mini JCW is an outlier and ripe for removal. Even if it stays, as you rightly say, the AP will most likely jump significantly in July when 20% VAT plus Insurance Premium Tax gets dropped on to APs.

[Winston]

Thanks guys I appreciate those responses, I had always thought that after this current car F56 JCW I would go to back to that trusty old Tiguan or explore and maybe look at some Hyundai/Kia as they look interesting 🧐. It’s only when I saw the new JCW appear I thought I’d find out more. It’s not that much of a big deal if I can’t make it work for me. I love the current car I have , it’s very quirky you’ll either love it or hate it.

if anything relevant pops up I’ll post it on here

Shame things on MB aren’t as rosey now as they once were , but i guess that’s more of a countrywide issue rather than a specific MB one

 

thanks again, much appreciated

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[jojo22]

I would not be able to bend down to get in the JCW lol

But I am considering the more powerful 309/313bhp E countryman

A steal at £1349

Hope its still there in April

[solent60]

I can’t see the Mini JCW being removed anytime soon. Motability want to promote British-built cars they said recently after all the media hysteria – and you can’t get anywhere more British than Oxford.

[Glos Guy]

solent60 wrote:

I can’t see the Mini JCW being removed anytime soon. Motability want to promote British-built cars they said recently after all the media hysteria – and you can’t get anywhere more British than Oxford.

True, but there are dozens of Mini’s that would satisfy the ‘Motability customers can’t have a fun car’ brigade. I hope that you are correct, but I can see the JCW version being axed the second that someone queries why the JCW version is more suitable for disabled people than lesser variants. Let’s face it, they removed very sensible family cars like the Enyaq Coupe, just because it is called a coupe. That’s the crazy world that we are now in 🤔

[solent60]

Glos Guy wrote:

True, but there are dozens of Mini’s that would satisfy the ‘Motability customers can’t have a fun car’ brigade. I hope that you are correct, but I can see the JCW version being axed the second that someone queries why the JCW version is more suitable for disabled people than lesser variants. Let’s face it, they removed very sensible family cars like the Enyaq Coupe, just because it is called a coupe. That’s the crazy world that we are now in

I love the new Honda Prelude full hybrid coupe – a car that would have been at the very top of my list a year from now when re-order time comes around. Alas, it’s a ‘coupe’ – a filthy, banned & triggering word in Motability HQ these days – so no chance of it now appearing on the scheme – alas.

[Winston]

It might have been discussed or mentioned before but I remember flicking channels a few weeks ago on budget day and just caught the… cough cough “chancellor”s swipe at MB which only lasted about 1 minute but it contained a part that went something along the lines of…
It wasn’t set up so people could go along and pick up the keys to their new Mercedes Benz

Followed by a lot of MP’s Shouting, Cheering & Stamping Feet

So wrong on so many levels, to me a clear indication of desperately looking for votes regardless of the division and ramifications it would cause

If you can turn 1 very large group of Voters ie The Working Class against a much smaller group Us aka Motability Customers and create a narrative of unfairness that we are used to seeing from the Daily Mail then there’s a good chance a lot of that big group of people who are unhappy and looking to blame someone are gonna vote for you

Deflect Deflect Deflect and we’re an easy target.

Not a lot suprises me these days, but that was very very poor.

MB and its customers are not the reason this Country is in the state it’s in.

Coupe, Convertible and the Big 3 German Brands all of a sudden dirty words, but if you can afford the AP you can drive away in car worth well over £50k but no basic Audi A1 that’s worth half that 🤦🏻‍♂️

they talk about banning social media for under 16’s. I think they should ban it for over 18s So we can all go back to a time of common sense, respect, morality and not giving a care in the world what anyone else thinks

if it doesn’t affect you then keep your mouth shut

and you’ll be glad that’s exactly what I’m gonna do now lol.

goodnight 😴

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[basilfawlty]

We have ordered the Mini E Countryman Monochrome at £0 AP. We were previously looking at the petrol ones in the Q4 2025 list and we were told by the dealer that you couldn’t add or upgrade the packs. So the one we were interested in only came as a Level 1 offering and we could not pay more to have it as a Level 2 to get privacy glass etc.

This did seem strange as you’ve always been able to pay for options etc. in fact at one point BMW used to offer discount off the optional extras because of the residual value they added.

[Winston]

Yes that seems strange about not being allowed to add options/packs. Maybe he made a mistake , maybe that particular dealer doesn’t do that incase someone cancels and they’ve got a car sitting there with some added options.

as far as the privacy glass I would worry as it’s never dark enough and go to your local window tint company and it shouldn’t be more than £200

allnmy cars including my current JCW came with privacy glass but I’ve always paid a firm to add a dark tint

congratulations on the new order 💪🏻 what sort of time scale they give you for delivery?

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[basilfawlty]

Winston wrote:

Yes that seems strange about not being allowed to add options/packs. Maybe he made a mistake , maybe that particular dealer doesn’t do that incase someone cancels and they’ve got a car sitting there with some added options. as far as the privacy glass I would worry as it’s never dark enough and go to your local window tint company and it shouldn’t be more than £200 allnmy cars including my current JCW came with privacy glass but I’ve always paid a firm to add a dark tint congratulations on the new order what sort of time scale they give you for delivery?

We ordered on Jan 6th and they said we should have it by Feb 13th when our lease ends. The dealer emailed me yesterday saying that the car was on the ship on its way and it was on track for the 13th…

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