Think the classic Mini has to be slow and cheerful all the time? Guess again, because with an engine swap, it becomes a ...

Steve from Australia built himself a Honda VTEC-powered classic Mini a few years back and was proud of the job he’d done. However, it was a bit of a torque-steering monster and wasn’t great to drive.

The original Mini was a car designed to transport as many people as possible with as little space as science could possibly allow. The fact it was zippy at all wasn't thanks to a fire-spitting dragon ...