A power-to-weight ratio of 550bhp-per-tonne. Just think about that for a moment. That’s exactly the figure that was quoted for the McLaren F1 – ahypercar so improbably rapid that no-one even bothered to try to make anything faster for a generation. And yet here’s that tantalising figure wrapped up in the diminutive form of a classic Mini; no central driving position here, no space for your golf clubs, no premium Kenwood audio… just visceral performance, ludicrous agility, sweaty palms and white knuckles. Yes, it takes a special kind of lunacy to put this sort of power into a Mini and then gum a pair of number plates to it – but without people like this in the world, how would
