Crazy MINI with a 170HP Yamaha R1 Engine Swap Taunts a Lamborghini Gallardo
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Crazy MINI with a 170HP Yamaha R1 Engine Swap Taunts a Lamborghini Gallardo



If you are looking for a truly unique Mini model to knock you off your socks, forget about the official John Cooper Works variants and the numerous projects presented over the years by the mainstream tuning industry, and check out this 1970's Austin Mini by Pro-Motive.

What makes this car fascinating is not the fact that it has a different engine, but the type of engine as it is fitted with a rev-crazy, 170HP 1.0-liter inline-four sourced from a 2003 Yamaha YZF-R1 sports bike!

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