{"id":409124,"date":"2010-03-09T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/09\/video-running-the-ring-in-reverse-in-a-vtecd-mini\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T21:27:00","slug":"video-running-the-ring-in-reverse-in-a-vtecd-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/409124","title":{"rendered":"Video: Running the &#8216;Ring in reverse in a VTEC&#8217;d Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/videos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/mini\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mini<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><em><strong><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/09\/video-running-the-ring-in-reverse-in-a-vtecd-mini\/#continued\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/mini-clubman-estate.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong><small>Click above to watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/09\/video-running-the-ring-in-reverse-in-a-vtecd-mini\/#continued\">after the jump<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Nurburgring is the gold standard for any track not comprised of a banked oval, and it&#8217;s a blast to watch dashboard-mounted video of various vehicles taking on the best the Nordschleife has to offer. We typically share with you videos of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/07\/10\/video-gm-releases-corvette-zr1s-7-26-4-ring-attack\/\">ZR-1s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/04\/16\/revised-nissan-gt-r-clocks-7-27-56-lap-time-at-the-nurburgring\/\">GT-Rs<\/a>, but this time we have something a bit different. Achim Korden and co-pilot Guido Heindl of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringmini.de\/English_Version\/My_Minis\/Estate\/estate.html\">ringmini.de<\/a> fame run the &#8216;Ring in reverse in an old school Mini (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringmini.de\/English_Version\/My_Minis\/Estate\/estate.html\">1971 Clubman Estate<\/a>) equipped with a 1.6-liter Honda drivetrain, and they mean business. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/09\/video-running-the-ring-in-reverse-in-a-vtecd-mini\/#continued\">Hit the jump<\/a> to watch the little Mini battle a rain-soaked Nordschleife while starting at the end and making their way to the beginning. It&#8217;s an odd experience and further proof that you don&#8217;t need to have big power to have big fun.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NveSiZFcztE&amp;feature=player_embedded\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/09\/video-running-the-ring-in-reverse-in-a-vtecd-mini\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Video: Running the &#8216;Ring in reverse in a VTEC&#8217;d Mini<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/09\/video-running-the-ring-in-reverse-in-a-vtecd-mini\/\">Video: Running the &#8216;Ring in reverse in a VTEC&#8217;d Mini<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:27:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NveSiZFcztE&amp;feature=player_embedded>Read<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/09\/video-running-the-ring-in-reverse-in-a-vtecd-mini\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19388767\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/09\/video-running-the-ring-in-reverse-in-a-vtecd-mini\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Videos, Mini Click above to watch the video after the jump The Nurburgring is the gold standard for any track not comprised of a banked oval, and it&#8217;s a blast to watch dashboard-mounted video of various vehicles taking on the best the Nordschleife has to offer. We typically share with you videos of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}