WRC Countryman update: Prodrive testing in Spain
I don’t know about you folks, but I never get tired of the sound of that engine.
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I don’t know about you folks, but I never get tired of the sound of that engine.
<p>More recent MINI WRC goodness:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wrchd.com/index.php/2010/10/28/mini-countryman-wrc-ponte-de-lima-2010/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.wrchd.com/index.php/2010/10/28/mini-countryman-wrc-ponte-de-lima-2010/</a></p>
<p>Nice find Matthew</p>
<p>Looking forward to the upcoming seasons, its going to be great to have MINI and several other manufactures coming to the season. As a huge ProDrive fan I have to say that I will be pulling for them bigtime. This car is more ProDrive than it is MINI. The outer shell is R60 and the motor (though many upgrades from ProDrive it sounds like), from there its all ProDrive goodness.</p>
<p>@JonPD – <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzXjS8lYm3M" rel="nofollow">Engines are coming from BMW Motorsport</a>, not Prodrive…</p>
<p>Speaking of Dave Richards, he and Paddy Hopkirk will be doing the RAC Brighton to London Future Car Challenge in the MINI E and Cooper D, respectively.</p>
<p>True Chris, still a distant cousin to the production item that will ever see light of day from MINI. Still one thing for sure ProDrive > jcw.</p>
<p>Does anybody know when the Mini Countryman will hit the dealerships in SoCal? I keep hearing November, December and January.
I want to see how roomy is it in comparison to the regular Mini hatchback. Not sure I can’t wait past December.</p>
<p>I just hope Discovery HD Theater continues to carry WRC coverage, it was nice not to have to download it this year.</p>