Insane MINI COOPER Fitted With A Helicopter Jet ENGINE With 420HP & 400 ft-lb Torque!
An all wheel drive Mini Cooper S with a Helicopter engine! It must be hot inside that car. :) Would you dare to drive this thing?
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Tightest Parallel Parking Record
A Chinese man, Han Yue, broke the world record for squeezing a car into the tightest parking space. With little more than an inch and a half of space on either side, Han Yue slid his Mini 3 Door Hatch into the tiny space with style. The gap measured just 3.15 in longer than his car. The record was set at the China Drift Championship held in Chongqing, China on November 14.
The tightest parallel park is 8 cm (3.15 in) and was achieved by Han Yue (China) using the MINI 3 Door Hatch during the China Drift Championship held in Chongqing, China on 14 November 2014.
2002 Twin Engine Mini Cooper – Jay Leno’s Garage
Jay Leno test drives a twin-engine MINI Cooper (TWINI). It’s exactly what it sounds like, a Hatch that has a Cooper S engine on the front axle and one on the rear one.
Enjoy!
Jay Leno is no stranger to bizarre cars — this is the man who finds room in his garage for the Blastolene Special, a.k.a. the Tank Car, after all. So you might think it’s odd that he’s devoted an episode of his “Jay Leno’s Garage” web series to a 2002 Mini Cooper. These cars typically aren’t that crazy, even if they’re wearing racing livery and an aggressive body kit.
But this isn’t just any boy-racer Mini: It’s Jacques Andres’ boy-racer Mini, and he’s done a number of special modifications to the little car. See, it’s been converted to a rear-engine, rear-wheel drive model, which already sets it apart from the pack. Except that the front engine, which drives the front wheels, is still there. Each engine does 250 hp for a total of — if our math is correct — around 500 hp.
There’s two of almost everything drivetrain-related, including tachometers, ignition systems (the car can be run with just one if need be) and even front suspensions (one’s repurposed for the rear). Thanks to drive-by-wire components like the throttle, which replace troublesome mechanical linkages, “it’s actually worked out quite easily,” Andres explains.
Yeah. If you say so, dude.
Anyway, Andres built didn’t build his Twini — enough of these have been built since the original Mini debuted for the type of vehicle to have a name — to serve as a curiosity. He built it to run down much more expensive cars on the race track.
Leno gives it a bit of exercise on the road, calling it the “ultimate canyon carver.” Unfortunately, it’s not quite street-legal at the moment, but we’re sure it’s a blast on the track.
Man Balances a Mini Cooper On His Head
In this video, John Evans, of Derbyshire England, balances a gutted 352-pound Mini Cooper on his head for 33 seconds for a new Guinness World Record.
John learned the trick of balancing things on his head when he worked as a bricklayer at 18. He needed to find a way to carry bricks up a ladder continuously so he devised a way of balancing them on his head.
“I don’t know why I can do it and other people can’t but I’ve been doing it nearly every day for years.
“It never gives me a headache – although sometimes I do get a bit of a stiff neck.”
Simply mind-blowing!
John Evans holds the Guinness World Record for the balancing the heaviest car on one’s head. How did he discover that he has this talent? It started while he was working as a bricklayer. He discovered that he could do his work faster if he carried bricks on his head, thus leaving both hands free.
Evans is enormously strong and has put that ability to work as an entertainer and strongman. Over the course of his career, Evans has balanced on his head a 357-pound car, 275 full pints of beer and a girl inside a flaming oil drum.
World Record For The Tightest Parallel Parking
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One of our most popular world records over recent years has been the hotly contested tightest parallel parking title.
The record has changed hands five times in the past two years, with our video of German driving ace Ronny Wechselberger ‘s successful attempt last year becoming something of an internet sensation with viewing figures hitting the millions.
When Patrik Folco neatly slid his way into a gap measuring just 22 cm (8.66 in) longer than the car he was driving last month it set a benchmark that looked unlikely to be broken.
However, the record has indeed once again been smashed , this time by Chinese master wheelman Han Yue.
Han last week managed to shave off an incredible 7cm from the record, drifting into a space of just 15 cm (5.91 in) longer than his vehicle during an attempt at the launch in Beijing of a new special edition of the Mini called The Chinese Job.