Crazy car builds are a dime-a-dozen these days with quadruple horsepower figures and space frames nothing to be sneered at anymore but when one of the modifications to the car includes an electrical sliding roof for the exhaust from the jet-engine to burp fire, you know this thing will sneer and leave you eating its jet fumes.
The base car is a Mini Cooper S that now packs a Rolls Royce-Allison 250-C20Bturbine engine behind the rear seats that add a 420hp and 542Nm of torque kick to the rear wheels, making it a 650hp dual-engined rocket. It’s the work of BMP Design of Tyler, Texas, and was constructed for an anonymous client.
The sliding roof consists of an electric shutter and fan that is necessary to protect the turbine from rain, the only thing this side of a full-on drag car that could cripple it. The video shows the separate fuel tanks needed for the two engines and the throttle control for the turbine engine, a stick to the side of the driver, just like in the helicopter it was nicked from.
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Source: Jalopnik
