Driving a BMW V8 Powered Mini with Chris Harris

From The Late Brake Show.

Driving a BMW V8 Powered Mini with Chris Harris. This episode sees Jonny Smith surprise Chris Harris (ex Top gear presenter and BMW drift fanatic) with a wild BMW E92 M3 powered Mini Cooper. With track time to themselves, they try to tame this one-off monster whilst chatting project cars, Max Power, Goldie Lookin Chain and crashes.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:53 Time to play with cars
2:23 Chris’ first car
2:50 S65 V8
3:04 ENGINE FIT?
3:38 INTERIOR CABIN
4:07 Chris is ill
4:30 START UP SOUND
4:53 STYLING
5:19 DODGE VIPER CRASH
5:40 FIRST DRIVE
6:30 WARMING IT UP
7:19 ENGINE SOUND
8:02 CHRIS DRIVES
9:37 Will it drift?
10:10 Supercars boring?
10:39 Drift
11:45 HOW IT WAS BUILT
13:35 E46 straight six?
14:20 Subaru rear suspension
14:32 RWD conversion
15:38 MORE DRIVING
17:20 Full throttle and drifting
17:50 Chris’ project cars
18:27 M5 stolen
18:40 Jonny’s Dodge Charger
19:16 Austin Allegro Type R
19:44 Podcast story