Mini John Cooper Works Buggy

The Mini John Cooper Works Buggy is one of 36 Mini models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2017. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Mini John Cooper Works Buggy properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Ferrari Ferrari 488 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Mini John Cooper Works Buggy reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3.0 L B57 I6 turbo (diesel); kerb weight is recorded at 1675 kg; drive goes through wheelbase =; the layout is rear wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Mini story

Within Mini's own catalogue the Mini John Cooper Works Buggy sits alongside the MINI Beachcomber, the Mini (3rd Generation), the Mini All4 Racing (2010), the Mini Countryman. The record names the Mini John Cooper Works Rally as its predecessor and the class = Rally raid as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to sp =. Assembly is recorded at predecessor = Mini John Cooper Works Rally.

On the record

For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 31 mpg combined, which works out near $2,550 a year in fuel at current prices.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Mini John Cooper Works Buggy costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.