you could say all mini's are special editions as when ordered new the new buyer has thousands of option to click through to design what they want the car to look like and go like, there were special edition cars for when went rallying think their driver was chris meek and mini produced 200 or 400 cars think they were countyman all 4 based cars with jcw rally theme to them pro drive built were the true rally cars, believe mini withdrew their rally car after a season off top of my head , their cars were red and black , top gear done a feature on it,
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