Blinged-up Mini has 185kW in the bag

It may look like a handbag on wheels, but there's a serious performance car under the Louis Vuitton-style bling. This John Cooper Works Mini has been completely covered by tuning house CoverEFX with a special leather-textured foil wrap in royal blue, emblazoned with gold monograms not dissimilar to that of the iconic luggage house, and runs on matching matte black and matte gold metallic 17” OZ alloy rims shod with 205/40 rubber. Under the gold-trimmed bonnet CoverEFX has fitted an extra-large sports air filter, a Miltek downpipe and an authoritative 65mm diameter exhaust system with a free-flowing sports catalytic convertor - plus an ECU upgrade that pushes power from 155 to 175kW and torque from 280 to 350Nm. A second-stage tune with even more aggressive ECU software pushes that to 185kW and 382Nm, while a short-shift gearbox kit and stainless-steel KW Variant 3 suspension help get all that muscle down on to the tar. Unless your credit card is the same colour as the logos it's unlikely to survive the conversion process - and neither will the Mini's warranty.