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  • "Twin overhead cam".....

    "oh yeh just like a golf"

  • Never seen the point in modifying mini engines to this degree. My 1979 1000 feels like youre doing a 60 when you're doing 30! Original A-Series for the win, they managed to win the monte carlo with a standard engine so this really is slightly pointless, i love the look, just not the power!

  • anyone know where this mini is now? I believe it was built by Rover for the Frankfurt motor show.

  • £50,000 and I bet the shitty thing still rusts like fuck and drops to bits!!!!!!

  • I bet the Number Plate is worth a bit.....

  • Theres going to be a mini in the Top Gear christmas special.. CANT WAIT!

  • I've got one BITCHES!!! :D

  • Mr Bean dreams too! 

  • My right ear is lonely :(

  • I love how he gets so excited over the fact its a 1.4ltr, twin cam, 16v and 160bhp! To cope with this phenominal power it needs a dog box, LOL

  • @Enzer89 considering it weighs like 600kg, a 1.4L motor putting out 160hp is pretty mental. Power output isn't everything buddy

  • @jewses Yeah I know that, but it is still shit power by todays standards, you buy regular superminis with that much power today. I never said it wasnt fast, just how different the times are that back then 16v and twincam were a specialty, yet now they are on everything.

  • @Enzer89 yeah but todays "superminis" aren't using an ancient A series =P. not to mention they are a whole lot bigger than the mini (If we have the same definition of "regular superminis"). But i agree with you, this is a common conversion nowadays and it certainly doesn't cost 50k to do it or to get that much power.

  • @jewses honda V tec. yep.

  • @pennypacker93 that's not a VTEC honda engine, that's a 16V head on a A-series block, there's a few companies doing it, this one is a Jack Knight head, they'r similar to the KAD heads, there's too 16v valve conversions using BMW motorcycle heads. so that's not "just" an engine conversion.

  • @Enzer89 your a moron if ur claiming shit power!!!!!! the thing weighs as much as my right ass cheek and using 1.4 liters to pull 160 big ones. i wud take this baby any day!!!!!!!

  • @oilplumber123 You're a moron*

  • @Enzer89 mini hayabusa 

  • @Enzer89 yeah - well mate a 1959 mini had about 34 bhp when it came out- and the same car above 150 bhp...so do the maths lets take a new BMW Mini cooper and give it what 700 bhp?

  • what engine has he got in that...

  • Woww xD look at him!

  • Young Jeremy ftw

  • european all the way. I have a 235 HP R53 thats walking 350zs and going neck and neck w/ 370s

  • It's a weekend toy :-)

  • Quel trouduc !

  • lol a younger Richard Hammond with more hair...

  • @Shredderbox thats Jeremy Clarkson.

  • i have a mini and im only 14 which i am restoreing atm and im pretty sure jeremys talking crap every body wants one

  • @thefruitygecko

    By the time you can drive the work on it should be done then? ;). Btw, how does a 14 year old earn enough money to restore a car?, some of the parts are in the thousands and beyond. Parents?

  • @MrDeano324 yes hard to belive right its a complete car and some times it over whelms me to do the workkbut its a complete car and my uncle owns a work shop outside his hous where i have got all the equipment that i need like welders grinders drills and metrics and normal spanners i think the question is hopw much will this cost me.... around 1750 i can make my dash board and accesories i have taken a pause on it but will be welding it within the next week i hope check out my vidsit on there

  • Hope to buy one with 200bhp their is no boot the engine is in it

  • i have a mini ive been driving it since i was 4 and im only 14 now

  • I've gotta mini n only paid 500 quid for it and it smoked an Audi a4 round a roundabout when I first got it and last week I beat my mates 1 litre saxo in a little drag race n I'm only in starting stages of tuning it :D

  • 1:10... erm no entry!? lol

  • luckily my dad havent had 1 of those

  • clarkson circa 91 lol

  • Jezza sort of missis the point here a little.........

  • looked a bit like kiefer sutherland at 1.00

  • 1997 lol

  • just put a vtec engine in for less than 10,000 dollars, and get 180 hp!

  • @TheChandad too easy, to chav. gotta keep it classic

  • looks like a giant tic tac

  • 160 HP! HA! What a joke!

  • @SuperWhoopass not in a car that weighs almost nothing

  • @SuperWhoopass I guess you americans are used to 600HP fuel guzzler SUVs which weigh the earth and have a top speed of 10mph. The mini weighs less than a tonne so the power to weight ratio is huge. Jeremy said that the car goes from 0-60 in 5 seconds, not even some supercars can do that! So stop being so obnoxious next time!

  • @TopGearrules umad bro?

  • @SuperWhoopass No im not, thanks for your concern!

  • You can achieve the same effect for rather less than 50 000£. You climb into a metal box with a pile driver, start it up, then ask someone to push you off a cliff.

  • what is the exact make model and spec of the car ?

  • i hate the way clarkson always makes the cars sound really good at the beginning and then by the end of him testing/ driving the car he starts to talk about the bad parts and it makes you think that the car was cool and now its SHIT.

  • My dream car too!

  • you could prob built it for less than 50g

  • 50 grand? are you kidding me? choose between this pile of shit and a used 2008 BMW M5. i'll choose the m5 even if i know that im going to crash and die on the first day.

  • @nejdriny You can build a 1.6 vtech for around 10k now pal.. you maybe could get an M5 but it wouldnt be nearly as fun!

  • @PicklesDJ read carefully the last part of the message.

  • i want one!

  • Bloody fantastic waste of money! I want one.

  • it's loud!? It's a fukin race car!!! It better be loud if I paid 50k for that thing!

  • mini's are legand

  • I love people's lack of mini knowledge, but still willing to yap yapp yap about stuff they know nothing about!!

  • I want that. A lot :P But 2 is enough for now haha

  • OOO Jeramy hase got HAAAAIIRRR !! HAHHAHAHA :D

  • wow

  • Man some of you know fuck all about cars, a dog box is not a gearbox that allows you to change gear without a clutch. That's a sequential box, a dog box is just a different layout between 1&2 gear (and 2nd to 3rd) due to the higher frequency of changing from 2nd to 3rd while racing they are in line, as oppose to having to go up and across. As for 16v mini's you could build one for 50p nowadays!

  • @Mattiphone3743 it's you who don't know fuck all about cars, sir. they're called dogboxs because of the dog tooth gears they use, and you can do clutchless shifts with a dog box.

  • @kyleisreallycool Oh really mate, why don't you look on the Internet, or maybe you could listen to when Jeremy says the gearbox is a "straight cut, dog box". Straight cut, meaning the gears are straight cut as oppose to being helacial (at an angle). So in this instance he's only describing the box layout. Mate I know what a dog box is, but it doesn't mean ALL of them are cluchless. This is not a cluchless mini, find the spec on it if you want. 16v mini's have no need for a cluchless shift.

  • @Mattiphone3743

    Both of you idiots are wrong

  • @orange618m "Dog" refers to how the gears are selected and engaged within the box. I know my explanation wasn't 100% accurate, but I tend not to bother when these morons wouldn't have a clue what I was on about anyway.....

  • @Mattiphone3743 just because you can do clutchless shifts doesnt mean it doesnt have a clutch lol

  • @koreannow can you even read? Are you retarded? I've been arguing the point that this is a mini with a standard clutch system, that it is not a clutchless shift mini..... Wtf are you on about.

  • @Mattiphone3743 mate you the dumb fuck who cant read i didnt say its a clutcheless shift i said just because it has a clutch doesnt mean you have to use it. you can clutchless shift any manual doesnt matter fuck about the cut NOW FUCK OFF BACK TO THE MILK BAR YOU KIWI CUNT

  • picture one with a j35 vtec. ssssssssssccccccccccaaaaaaaaaa­rrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy torch

  • Waste of $ Shoulda just put in a hayabusa motor with a turbo for about 300 bhp

  • @pencon61 I believe there werent such things as hayabusas back when this was shot...

  • 50! whats that in todays money? when was this filmed? ive seen 160bhp minis for a 5th of that.

  • 50k! not hard to build a 160 hp mini these days for 15k and whats 50k there in todays money?!?

  • clarkson dosent know whatta dog box or straight cut gears are haha! SHows how much he knows about cars. Oh yeah, he dosen't he's a tv presenter. People forget that.

  • @d4zcr4n dog box means you don't have to use clutch to change gear, nothing more, what so hard about it?

    it's a type of system

  • @naturalyshocked yeah i know? :S

  • @d4zcr4n Lol you are all idiots. This was filmed yeeeaaarrrss ago. A dog box was a rare thing to come across in them days so he had never heard if it. Or he had heard of it but was just trying to be humorous for the viewers.

  • @JohnL2011 You havin a laugh?? we have had dog leg gearboxes since the 70's!!!! aven the origional m3 had a dog leg gearbox in the mid 80s and that car was hella popular here in europe/britain, this was filmed in fucking 1998 so its not even that old and you got it the wrong way round back then a lotta cars had a dog box but nowadays its a rareee thing, lol

  • @dilawer321 Yeah my bad lol. Got it a bit muddled xD. Cheers for correcting me.

  • @JohnL2011 Ahh its ok, i think you got muddled up with straight cut gears?

  • @dilawer321 Yeah. Was a long day xD. But still i bet Jezza does know what it is, he just pretended he doesn't for a bit of humour. It put a smile on my face lol.

  • @dilawer321 shut up

  • anyone that will drive one wont know whether to shit themselves,orgasm or piss their pants and thats just 1st and 2nd gear......

  • jeremy clarkson

  • nice to see all these mini's died of rust.

  • jeremy clarkson had hair!

  • 160whp

    man my turboed k24 makes 450whp

  • @drebin7410 tbh no one really cares cos thats a light weight agile mini which is quite rare and yours is a mass produced peice of crap.

  • 1:22 Clarkson says "dog box and straight cut gears....know idea what that means". WTF! That PROOVES he is a fucking moron.

  • @BoostedXR6T

    I'm pretty sure he knows what that means. He's just making a joke and doesn't want to bore the part of the audience that's not interested.

  • @Molo9000 Yeah yer probalbly right.

    But I still hate him. :)

  • dude, dog box ist the type of technology over the primairy and seconday axis in the gearbox.

    straight cut teeth are like its says, straight teeth.

    clarkson didn't fail, you did.

  • @naturalyshocked LOL. did you even read my post. That was random

  • you said, it was no dog system and clarkson is a douchebag, that's what you say.

  • @naturalyshocked When..???? Where..????

  • haha crazy Europeans think they have powerful cars.... pfft the mini is a tin can on wheels

  • TIN Can wit more power than american shitty v8s

  • @CrossCheckCharlton But it's this simplicity, the tin can on wheels, that we love so much about our cars! Real metal and not reformed plastic like you find on your standard American muscle car. American monsters may have the power, but we have all the style.

  • @CrossCheckCharlton dude, our octane leven is higher than yours.

    you highest doesn't even match or lowest.

    besides a new 2011 ford flex doesn't even reach 200km/h with 355hp twin turbo v6.

    the dodge avanger with 2.4 2011 doesn't even reach 200km/h with a 2.4 engine.

    gues what, i have a 2.5v6 26 and it's pretty much equal fast than a 2010 dodge charger hemi 6.2.

    i have a diesel with real race suspention and only 90hp, i bet 1000us$, i make you poop on europe roads.

  • my next project wil be a 1.6 with a SEQ gearbox .... witch wil cut the acceleration of a corvette zr1 in litle more than half.

    a WRC car with 2.0 does 0-62m/h in less than 2.5 seconds and litle more than 300hp.

    american maybne have power, but not effecient power.

    that efficient that even the european importer for GM product went bancrupt.

    <1000 cadilac in 10 years.

    who has the better cars?

    anyone except USA.

  • besides, i bet 1000us$ you will be scared to drive this mini.

    this is maybe 750 kilo curb weight and 160hp.

    my brothers renault Williams beats most cars produced by the UNITED aids.

    again with around 950 kilo curb and (131 kW; 176 hp).

    or the opel e kadet GSI, 2.0 16v 150hp and 900kg curb, i had one.

    build in 1986 0-62m/h in 7.x seconds

    i had a friend with a 205 GTI 1,9 MI16 and 160 HP, curb wieght less than 900 kilo.

    legendary car

    i don't think you can imagen anything like that.

  • the Golf mk II GTI was called the porsche for the poor people.

    1.8 16v, acceleration 0-62m/h in 7,x second from fabrik.

    Add a remus exhaust and airfilter + some tweeks and you are below 7 seconds.

    it was faster than any V8 pushrod from that same.

    the Audi RS2 designed porsche and only 315hp is twice as fast as any pushrod from that same time.

    i bet 1000us$

    you have no clue, we only have 95 and 98 octane @ pump.

  • classic gear!!!....lol...

  • Am making one! Because I can cos am dan the man,,,

  • A mini like this is only worth £10,000 at the most these days :D i could get one for £5k

  • god this dip is so cringy

  • wait which is this mini,,, a mk 1 ,2, or 3 ????

  • @Willatam mk2 or 3 not 1 lolzzz

  • Oh i would be sooo happy to be Jeremie Clarkson for a day....

  • lol is the guy who makes the reviews for all types of cars on top gear??

  • @gustavogucho yes, he is Jeremy Clarkson and he is also in original top gear series from 80's

  • i want one

  • how is that an ordinary mini engine in any way, shape or form?

  • @buttonisbest thats just a twin cam cylinder head ahahaa same mini block under neath,check up the twin cam conversion kit :) well worth the money if you want a very fast mini

  • Lmao who the fuck pays 50k for a 160hp car :L and clarkson lol dosent know what straight cut gears are :L shows how much he knows...

  • @d4zcr4n Agreed; And as replied to 1 other mini vid. Why not a 911 [ 300+ h.p.] and save huge bucks. Although..... the cost of a new mini cooper in Can. is thru the roof. The stock minis, all over the roads 35 - 40 yrs. ago got extinct in a few short yrs.

    As diid the VW in all guises a little earlier... What? Did the Japs wave a magic wand and turn them into 510s,240s,RX3s and in turn, the Koreans paid 'em back with the Hyun-"die hard"

  • man, i asked a Rally company in the UK that builds WRC cars, for a quote on a 6 speed SEQ gearbox + custom engine mounts + custom bell bousing for the clutch + custom axles + pneumatic shifter (flappy padles), it was almost 20.000 pound.

    it wasn't even a Xtrac gearbox.

  • You could easily build something faster out of an old mini for less than half of that money.

  • haha this guys from top gear best show ever!! and minis are teh best!

  • hi lad

  • 160HP lol, I had to crack up at that

  • @levinlis Why crack up? that is extremly quick in a old mini

  • I LOVE YOU MINI

  • That is my favorite Mini ever made, I do believe.

  • type r swaps in a mini are mental

  • how long do this guy work on that channel

  • Beautiful sound from that engine.

  • twin cam mullet!

  • I do want one

  • Theres no way that thing has straight cut gears, you cant hear ANY gear whine!

  • @GadgetsNGear That what i was thinking when he said dog box. That thing should be whining like a rooted diff

  • @GadgetsNGear

    Would there be uprated syncro though?

  • @GadgetsNGear thats true i just realised that theres no noise

  • He laughs like a drag queen...

  • how old is this ? jeremy clarkson looks like a top

  • what are the reliability like on these twin cams? 50k is a right kick in the crumpet i would have thought the engine/transmission would not be much more than 10k tops

  • Honda Vtec minis are the way forward! 200hp engine for 3,000 fitted and roadworthy!

  • Jeremy Clarkeson,Jeremy Clarkeson,you are so very....Jeremy Clarkeson,probably thee most Jeremy Clarkeson....In the World..

  • only the best clarkson make it to tv, the failed ones end up on Dave

  • @topgear93 Ay nice to see he doesn't fit in a mini very well either,nor do I..

  • Must be the oldest material of Jeremy Clarkson i've ever seen. What show is this from? Is it Top Gear already?

    NIce Mini btw!

  • @RyanliciousGTI This is "old top gear"... way before the current version

  • I wil take this. I believed the engine and design is prefect for Mini.Specailly, for handling.

  • Isn't this programme 'The Car's the Star', shown on BBC2 around 97-98

  • Sorry.

    I really don't know.

  • how old is this?> video

  • I/m not sure. It may be year 2000

  • I'd rather have this Mini Cooper he's driving than have a mustang or camaro , thats just me, I like sleeper cars, I'd rather have something everyone thought was slow, then surprise them. He said 160 HP..? 250 HP would be even better and then slightly wider tires to hug the road better, XD

  • Easy to do when you put a Honda VTEC B-series or K-series into it . Search VTEC mini. BRACE YOURSELF... then ROCK AND ROLL !!!!!!!

  • Vtec and this the different. I think is the handling. I know Vtec run straight is very very fast. I don't thing make turn is better than this.

  • @undergroundbasement you dont need 250 your power to weight ratio is like 300 horse to a ton

  • I owned a '74 1000, and it was the most uncomfortable car I ever owned, but, God, was it ever fun to drive!

  • Yes. I owned one MK5 1000 before. Now I had a 1972 850 only. But I like it.

  • For a mini, it's a sick version. But I wouldn't want to have one either.

  • I will.

  • Heheh, would love to see him in a twin R1 z-cars version now. :D

  • @hotrodzombie

    twin hayabusa turbo :p

    better get his will written out though lol

  • It gonna be real fast.

  • May be one day you will find one on youtube.

  • Clarkson, your hair is bushier than mine!

  • Sorry

  • Its an A-Series. A+ infact with a Jack Knight 16v head. The whole car was built by Jack knight. Nice but i'd rather have a KAD head.

  • I agree

  • @doug2507 id like one with a b18c1 in it

  • Thats not even an A-series looks like a Rover K-series and as its 1.4 16v i think it is.

    Nice car though.

  • Clarkson always says he loves the hot hatch superminis

  • A or K. If I had one. I already real happy.

  • The car is a classic, his hair NOT !!!

  • Not in the stupid CA, U.S.A

  • @rhkp Bwahahahaha...

  • JEREMY BIG HAIR LOL sorry couldn't hold it in any longer

  • isnt clarkson a bit young

  • um.. Google "Mini Tec" .. those mini's are soo cool