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 Post subject: MINI Countryman enters the Dakar rally
PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:37 am 
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Now we're talking: the swapped the 300+ HP diesel from an X3 into a countryman :-)

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/07/x-ra ... for-dakar/

Unfortunately the car crashed and had to retire from the race...

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/10/x-ra ... -of-dakar/

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 Post subject: Re: MINI Countryman enters the Dakar rally
PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:42 am 
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I read somewhere that everyone was saying it is a just a rebodied Bmw X3

but nice that they are trying

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