This Mini Restomod cost £100K! | Carfection 4K
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- This Mini restomod is guaranteed to put a smile on your face, but is it worth the £100k price tag?
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Everything about this car is so good, except the price, It seems like a blast to drive, but 100k for a buffed up mini seems too pricey for me
I see where you're coming from, but these are custom made things, not like a Renault Megane Trophy R sat at dealerships with £30k discounts because nobody buys them. If someone stumps up the money for it, they'll build it, otherwise they won't bother 🤷🏻♂️
" this seems like a blast to drive". That's priceless... If it wasn't worth the price they wouldn't be selling any
But buy it and in say 3 years it`s worth 150K
You could build this for
Doubt that cheap, a top spec Swiftune race engine was over £20K last time I looked! But you can get a decent motor for less than £10K
You are still going to be putting in 100000 worth into the car. It may not be cash you put in but it will be time.
@@Art-is-craft When it's a hobby time doesn't cost!
@@keefr22
It does cost because that time could be used for work. It also requires skills, tools, space and so on.
I LOVE Minis. I've had five myself and driven many more over the years. But I'm sorry, £100,000.00? Just plain stupid. Go get yourself a decent used one and get someone to build it if you can't do it yourself.
If you want a brand new car it will be £100000. There is no getting around that. A second hand project is still going to be a lot of money.
I've seen some journos try to call it the Singer version of a Mini, but it's nowhere near that level of enginerring. It's beautiful and well put together but that price tag is insane. Imagine what RetroPower could build you if you had £100k to spend on a Mini?
Very likeable. It cost 67% more than I expected. It’s clear that it takes a lot to arrive at the end result and, all of that end result would be hand built and hand fettled and take several person hours over several weeks and locations to complete. It looked fantastic fun. Most will never be driven hard enough to show the advantages. I wouldn’t say no if someone gifted me one for my birthday! Whoa was that a unicorn galloping by?
Man hours. Don't let the PC police warp your mind. SJWs ruin everything they touch.
My Austin Mini is smiling to this video. These cars are the best and always put a smile on ur face. ❤ 😁
Project Binky be like, Hold my beer !
But to fair binky might be a tad more expensive! (and better! )
I bet Project Binky has had way more engineering gone into it too. The amount of bespoke improvements are unbelievable.
At a hundred grand they should be wearing a mask or a balaclava. 😂
I'm sure they can afford to sanitise it after they've finished :)
@@quest8795 I think you may be missing what david is saying. I think he means they are robbbing anyone who pays 100k for a mini
@@bongobob7079 oh shit, I thought he was talking about covid 😂😂😂
@@quest8795 Ha Ha. I do have an odd way of saying things sometimes. 😂
@@bongobob7079 Ha Ha Thanks Bob. We were a bit like ships passing in the night then 😂
Worse thing about this isn't the price. It's wearing 2 watches..........
I used to write that in every video he was in until I seen Harry metcalfe doing the same so il have to let it go. I can't say anything bad about Harry.
@@simons4474 I havnt noticed Harry do it. I will keep an eye out.
@@thomasjohns13 Yeah it's usually an apple watch and then something really nice like a panerai or he has a lovely Frank muller.
A swiftune mini madgwick will outperform this and be much more enjoyable drive
Agreed. I've got a 65 Cooper with Swiftune engine upgrade. It's brilliant.
Anyone else notice he appears to have a watch on each wrist?
One mechanical one health tracker?
But in the past before smart phones that is.. journalists who travels a lot use to wear two watches, one home time one local time since some of them might travel up to 2, even 3 countries within a day or two etc for work obviously this way they know they won't be calling home at the wrong time say in the middle of night or smthg. Sales ppl or any other frequent flyer back then use to wear two watches. Oh and some rich ppl too haha to show case their high end fancy watches heard about those from my grandpa obviously it was considered cool and perhaps a status symbol as well? More like wearing jewelry maybe
@@philipc239 I used to call him out about it until I seen Harry metcalfe doing the same then I let it go. I can't have a go at Harry.
Could buy a Caterham and a sensible hatchback?
dude for the price you can get a GR Yaris, Fiesta ST and i20N.
All modern ugly junk.
It could make me Breakfast ,but 100GRAND...Having a laugh...!!
I love restomods and I love carfection. This video is one Henry catchpole away from being perfection
Reckon Henry may have struggled to fit in this one!
100k = mental , why is everyone in the restomod scene always wanting far to much money
Yes total rip off
Many of you are disconnect from the true economic reality of the world. That’s how much it costs today to build a brand new car of that standard. Have you ever wondered why modern cars look like junk.
Would sir like rear drum brakes with his Mini? Very good, sir. That will be £100k. (Muffled laughter from the servants’ quarters.)
Minis don't need rear brakes....!!
Clearly you only read somewhere "disc brakes good, drum brakes bad". In reality it's "horses for courses" i.e. drum brakes can be the best choice in certain situations. There are brand new designs of car with rear drum brakes.
100K? Absolutely ridiculous!! Son and I have an original 1979, stage rally prepared 1275GT with 110 brake, 13 inch wheels on Yoko's, Bilsteins, similar brake spec - yours for £30k and it doesn't need tax or MOT.....!!!! :-)
Good on you guys, doing it the proper way. 100K is for pretentious clueless wankers.
Did you work it your self or use a mechanic/restorer.
@@Art-is-craft We bought it supposedly already prepared but the work done was useless - my son did two NVQ's to learn how to weld properly and we then repaired all the work already done and did the rally preparation properly ourselves.
@@keefr22
That car probably has more than £30000 put into it. When you do work your self it would have to be factored into the build. Those £100000 cars are effectively brand new and buying similar standard restomods on the market cost just as such. Porsche based restomods can cost £300000. The price is not high as you think.
Johnny Two-Watches is at it again!
That fringe, the cardigan, the mirrored aviators, a watch on each wrist. What on earth am I watching?!
A total wanker, that's what you are watching. "What else is money for/".....well not for paying 3x the price of a proper modded mini for a start you try-hard timelord😀
caterham? - and a good deal of money left over
Not a mini and not as easy to live with. A teen girl could drive that mini.
I know it's impressive, but for 100k...you can by a Mini Cooper, upgrade the engine to these specs, suspension, resto interior and you know...still have 70K at least spare 😅
For $40k you can do a K-swapped mini with the best dampers and chassis reinforcement you could want. You won’t have to deal with bullshit classic car problems either (carburetors, drum brakes, etc.).
Most of you are mistaken. As you are not factoring in the hourly build rate or leaving out the fact you are only taking about restoration and not a fresh build.
That's a massive rip off!!! Is that this guys first time driving a mini?? Most of That commentary apart from the Bigger engine could equally apply to an original Cooper s.... You could have 3 very hot minis for £100k
And should be on 10" wheels
Definitely, 10s all the way
By comparison there's a nice 1971 Mini currently for sale on Pistonheads; fully repainted, Avonbar supercharged 1310cc engine, 4 pot alloy front brakes, new cage, new carpets, new seats, new wiring, new Minilights and Yokohamas. Priced at £10,995. You could buy that Mini AND a Yaris GR AND a Caterham 7 for less than the cost of an Oselli Edition Mini. I know what I'd rather see when I open my garage door...
A restored car is not the same as a car built from the ground up. Cannot be compared. There is a reason why modern Porsche restomods cost 250000 at a minimum. There are ford escort mark 1 restomods that cost £80000 and they are barebones rally style cars.
What else is money for? To feed my family? To clothe my family? To pay the bills? To take my family on a trip? To have quality time with friends down at the pub? To pay for my kids education?
All gay
Price is simply too much! Project Blinky is a rocketship vs this. I think you went too far. Is the car great - I am sure it is, but you cannot put that price on top.
$100k for body roll like that...
£100k! What a joke. You could build a Mini that looks and performs better than that for a quarter of the price. Ridiculous.
No you cannot not. If you putting in the work your self you are looking at £150000 and with a specialist about £100000. Building a car from the ground up with small scale manufacturing is very expensive.
Imagine having to tickle the throttle to stop your 100k car from stalling. 90% of carb minis of the road will idle fine with no input. Just sounds like a poorly setup engine
yeah that was the maddest part. even before considering price that's something i'd place firmly in the category of "annoyance" rather than "character"
Any person who wears two watches clearly needs to be ignored
They say it has 125bhp at 6200rpm. There is no way it has that much power so low in the rev range. It is 1450cc ok, but mini miglias have 1293cc that pumps out 130 bhp at 7k minimum and they don't idle well under 2000 rpm. I'm pretty sure that if you dyno it, you will only find 100 to 110 ponies tops. A 120+ hp N/A mini is not something daily driveable. A 100 bhp mini on the other hand, can. If they put a compressor or a turbo on it, then it's another thing.
My brothers 1300 just dynoed 93bhp at 5500, and that's had less work done to it, so definitely possible.
@@thomasclougher2281 I would wage for an optimistic dyno. 93bhp is exactly what a stock turbocharged 1275cc A series engine pumps out. To get that from a NA engine, you'd need a fairly spiced cam (let's say 276), a high ratio rocker if the cam has not enough lift intrinsically, a well ported head and a CR above 10.5:1. Carburation can be anything from twin HS4 to a HIF44. It will be very pleasant engine to drive and may get that kind of power. 100bhp daily driveable is possible with very high CR to compensate for high duration cams, a spot on ignition and a well tuned carburation. 100 bhp in a mini with a torque curve peaking at around 4000 to 4500 is a joy to drive, trust me.
There's currently a mint 1968 mk2 1275 Cooper S on Car&Classic for "just" £45k - who's going to buy a £100k Mini?
Because one is brand new the other is not.
Love the idea of this but it does seem like poor VFM. For this price you could have a brand new Caterham, a new Defender to tow it, a year of racing in the academy (you’d learn a lot more in than a few track days in a Mini) and still have £15k for a nice holiday or a decent motorbike 👍🏻
I thought £50k for a Golf was taking the P, but a £100k for a Mini?
There is no taking the …. It really costs that much in the modern world to build that sort of car at small scale manufacturing. That is a hand built small scale manufacturing project that requires several thousand hours. Building it you self will cost more when you factor in an hourly build.
The price is truly hilarious. I loooove the original Mini, but where i'm from i could buy a decent original Mini, a house, and start to mod the Mini too, for the price of this one car.
You are not buying a brand new car for that price at those standards.
100k for a mini. The world is getting crazier by the day.
The review i DID know I needed.
nice car though the price converts to $173,000 Canadian dollars for that price i can buy a Porsche that is already hand built with exterior paint finish and interior finish well above one of these and get a warranty up to 8 yrs and will last Canadian winters and will always have parts available to me in 24 hrs, don't get me wrong this is a great car and all being hand finished, its a gem , i want to drive it not wear it or sit and bullshit about it with my mates, the Porsche would be the best value for my money at $173,000 CDN dollars, this would also cost a bundle to insure it being a offshore vehicle considered specialized import, annually insured is again more than the Porsche, 👍
But some say an Alfa might be more worthy to the enthusiast
The contact patch of a tire is not determined by the size of the wheel or tire, but by the tire pressure and the weight of the car. That's why pressure is measured in Pounds per Square Inch. The Size of wheel and tire will however influence the shape of the contact patch.
The truth is that when I bought my first second hand Mini in the early 70s I had this much fun for £60! Yes it was a rust bucket and wasn't a patch on the DB ... I'm just talking about driving fun.
100k... uh, no. Just no. 100k would net you a really nice Jag, and AMG, an M BMW and so on. Hell for 11k less you can have a Nissan GTR which has more space and way more power.
0:29 hence the haircut...?
Lol just kidding another great video as always from carfection!
Imagine the type of mini you could build for a quarter of the price.
That is not true.
There are people who can do b series swaps in these minis for a hell of a lot less than 100k. If it was like Singer or Gunterwerks where they basically build you an all new carbon car, I could understand. But a tuned engine, some springy bits and cosmetic changes? Nah.
100k 🤣🤣🤣 Good luck with that.
Why don't they make anything for normal people anymore. 100k for a mini, who buys this? Someone getting their 6th car or something?
Someone very stupid
Nostalgic boomers when they retire
Buy a classic Mini, any classic Mini you can find. Spend 600euros on suspension parts and you'll have a car that can do all this handling for a fraction of the price.
I just saved you 100.000 moneys, you're welcome.
100k $£%%& you must be joking its looks good sounds good and probably is good , but that price tag is insane theres loads of good tuners out there and im sure they could do it for alot less than 50k
Now that Mini drives like the one from Mr. Bean.
£100k - dreaming! You could build it yourself for a fraction of that!
3:05-3:10 That tyre deformation is just.. 💋👌
😂😂🤣🤣 100k! This is a car for idiots or people with more money than sense from Abu Dhabi-ding-dong land. An Oselli A series engine is about 5-8k tops. So unless it has an interior made of dodo skin and a chassis made of diamonds, it’s not worth anything close to that. Oh dear 😅
I've got two mk1 Mini's including a 65 Cooper with a hot engine. Brilliant fun.
100k? don't be ridiculous.
Stupid price
much too much fake pastiche nostalgia and an absurd price.
I dearly hope Bad Obsession Motor Sport sees this, they could reproduce Binky and make a fortune!
Get on the waiting list now and recieve your very own Binky in about 10 years time!
Mini never looks right without the seams IMO.
I think they look great when it’s also been chopped into a “Sprint” body, but when the body is original dimensions, like this one, it looks too flat on the sides.
Agreed, but at least they kept the gutter.
Love the mini, but still waiting for the review of the GTO Engineering 250 swb revival
Loved my mini, even when it cut out going through puddles.
That's when I sold mine. When it ran it was very very nice: 1275, straight cut gears, Minilites and Dunlops.
You need to get a rubber glove snip off the finger tips and place it over the distributor and leads and cable tie each opening.
I really miss the seams down the shell, I think it's a massive shame it hasn't got them.
I know what you mean but it removes a surprising amount of frontal area from a car that needs every bit of aerodynamic help it can get!
Back in the 70s when I was a kid a bunch of my friends had HiPo Minis the daddy of all was an Osilli engined 1275 stroked and bored out to something at 140+ bhp at the wheels and it ran 6" semi slicks at the front and 4s at the back. In those days you had to remove the speedo and some of the firewall to let the Webbers into the passenger compartment.
Almost £100,000? I've just seen it in Evo and the cost was £117,600!
Looks like an absolute hoot to drive, but sadly at that price I can't see many of them hitting the track or the road. I think they are more likely to become ornaments gathering dust in the corner of some fancy loft apartment/warehouse which is a real shame. I'd like to think that my Mini creates just as many smiles to the gallon for significantly less.
The only thing madder then the price is that Drew is still rocking the duel watches.
is homie wearing two watches?
This must be the best thing David Brown ever Produced 💀
So the real hosts were all out? Damn shame
Reminds me of the days I used to thrash my mates Peugeot 106 Rallye. What a hoot that was. 👍👍
Now that's a car. I'd love one of them now. Amazing little machine
This car is like a go-cart on steroids.., pure madness, but oh, sooooo good!
Price is insane but to be fair, that little carburated 4 banger sounds better than most modern V8s! And this would be about the best time you could possibly have going slowly round a track! 😁
100k £ Is really absurd.
With that money you can buy a very good restored example and an insanely swapped one.
Registed in 1990 with a 1275 engine in grey. But suffered a long list of MOT issues.
Good luck selling that! You can get a Caterham and a 205 GTI if you just want a fun toy. Each of them is a better option all day by itself, but you will get two toys and still have lots of money for tires, brakes, fuel and track day entries.
If you want you can buy a very good, new, very fast car instead. Or maybe a big part of an house?
Why is everyone trying to get rich just selling a handful of cars?
I just hope no one buys it, even those that 100K feel like 100 for the average worker.
Mr Two Watches returns... 🕰️🕰️
A lot more body roll than the original?
I'm really itching to drive one of these now. Sounds so much like my first car to drive
Any mini is great fun.
100k ?!?!?!?! not worth at all lmao, sure fun, but for the elite not even the car fanatics that have the money.
How many brackets does it include for the £100k?
"only 125hp"? From a 1.4L I think it's fantastic! Reminds me of the Suzuki Swift GTi 1.3 engine
100hp/litre in a 100k Mini is not fantastic, it's expected.
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing petrol stations to only one state operated central gas station per city. From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any more....:-((
Oselli might know what they are doing. Baaaaaaarppp!
Thank you my dream car here in the Philippines for my art service.
You could build this for half that price.
This is a Cadwell park kind of car…
That is a compliment, just to be clear.
why is this dude wearing 2 watches?
Lovely car, but that price is extracting the Michael! I'd like their profit margjns
Much better than the guy in skinny jeans with HUGE ears.
Much better is the guy in skinny jeans with HUGE ears.
For 100k there are plenty of better options.
I'm liking this DB mini. The upgrades make it a very special little car , but how can re-engineering a classic mini amount to 100k........I smell profiteering.
A cool little car but the price is ridiculous.
$137,000 - you have to be joking - or insane .......
Eating ? Having a roof above your head ? Money is kind of usefull for that too :p
When you're a peasant.
We bought a Trevis for 4000 quid. Same droopy looks, same bodyroll, same size wheel (about). But beats this thing tremendously in hp per euro.
Oh my Lord this car looks brilliant. Really great work. A Mini Cooper by David Brown!
Where are you driving these cars? Bicester by any chance?
Fun car. Should of put honda engine in there tho unless they wanted original oem 100%
19 minutes? That's an awfully specific amount of time.
Great to see Drew pushing a car hard! Great review!
This looks as if the "Phoenix Four" are back in business.
Haha!! Brings back (bad) memories.
They should all have ended in jail for years.....