X-RAID MINI ALL4 Racing For 2011 Dakar Rally | Motorward (http://www.motorward.com/2010/12/x-raid-mini-all4-racing-for-2011-dakar-rally/)

looks awesome to me :)

Agreed! Plus I blow a small fortune on Monster, so it's nice to see that they're putting my hard earned cash to good use! :D :o

It looks like the accurate description would be "Dakar racer that used to look like a BMW X3 is now fitted with body that looks like a Mini Countryman". There does not appear to be anything Mini anywhere in that car, except the external appearance.

But the body is quite clever - as they take the Dakar racers to bits every night for maintenance, they have decied to stop bothering with body panels on this car and they just take the entire body off in one piece to get to the mechanicals, a bit like a funny car.