build a mini cooper

After multiple rounds of testing and nail biting qualifying runs for PINKS ALL OUT at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ, July 25th - 26th, the 650-horsepower MINI Cooper S drag racer, custom built by ABF Performance, emerged a crowd favorite and newly appointed giant killer.

BMW plans on building 500 Mini Coopers, all-electric for California meet the new zero-emissions law. The new law says manufacturers must build at least 7,500 low emission cars by 2014. BMW plans are to lease 490 Coopers and the rest will be used in showrooms.

Those crafty kids at Hybrid Technologies aren't just busy stuffing ridiculous amounts of power into teeny-tiny Mullen GT bodies, they've also set their sights on a more consumer friendly car: the Mini Cooper. Unfortunately, while electric Mini doesn't reach the six figures range like its L1X-75 counterpart, it'll still cost you $59,000

This man is building an Autonomous Bipedal Robot (looks scary from pictures) running RTLinux using Mini Cooper r50 parts. The Mini Cooper is 60's compact car from the UK. This guy is either really smart or utterly nuts, or maybe both!

"I first had the vision to build a robot while working as an engineer on the old Mini Coopers in the late 1960s. There were no real robots at the time of course, so it was purely science-fiction. But I always believed a robot would be the most natural complement to the automobile"

build a mini cooper