Originally Posted by
Chris69
very nice little cars- great once tweaked imo.
Tell your mate a 170bhp rs turbo showed one a clean pair of heals quite easily- my mate owns one and said it was pretty quick so we had little play. on private land of course

If it was a standard Cooper S I'm not surprised to be honest. My wife has a s/c one and it weighs more than my Sapphire. It does have a sunroof but it tips in at 1240kg which i guess is quite a bit more than the RS Turbo? Perhaps even 20% more weight with the same sort of power