We've posted quite a few videos and photos of the Prodrive-built Minis that race in WRC, but there's another team of Minis (set up not at all unlike our long-term Raptor) that compete in equally obscure baja-type off-road rallies in Europe and Africa. The team, X-Raid, is based in Germany, clothed in Monster energy drink livery and factory-supported by BMW.
X-Raid will enter five brightly painted Minis (plus three BMW X3s) in the 2012 Dakar rally, which starts January 1, 2012 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and finishes up two weeks later in Lima, Peru. Video of a really angry sounding Mini after the jump.
(X-Raid)
boombaux says:
02:59 PM, 11/11/11
come on mini. build it.. and they will come.
p00pman says:
07:06 AM, 11/12/11
go! go! power rangers!
blueguydotcom says:
09:35 AM, 11/12/11
Freaking Mini needs to release a WRC-ish Countryman. I'd take that over a 3.
v8vader says:
04:38 PM, 11/14/11
that second video was so EURO..... but it was still awesome.