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Mini Cooper Goes Where No Car Has Gone Before in 360 Degree Flip (Of Course It’s on Video)

Feb. 19, 2013 8:00pm Liz Klimas

We’ve seen Mini Coopers do some pretty impressive stunts before — conducting high-speed parallel parking jobs as well being the launch vessel for a wingsuit athlete off a cliff — but it appears the car has been taught a new and perhaps more impressive trick.

It can flip.

As shown in the YouTube video posted by the automaker Sunday, the Mini Countryman John Cooper Works SUV makes a world first “unassisted” backflip in Tignes, France, thanks to the work of driver Guerlain Chicherit.

Mini Cooper Country Man Makes First Unassisted Backflip for a Car

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Watch the impressive stunt:

The Christian Science Monitor has more on what this “unassisted” part means:

Skilled drivers like Rhys Millen have completed backflips in cars before (sometimes miffing the landing), but with the aid of special ramps with special moving elements to boost the car’s rotational movement necessary to complete the stunt.

For his take-off, Chicherit used a static ramp similar to those used by skiers. With the ideal ramp breakover angle in place, the 34-year-old needed only two other things to record a successful attempt: an extremely light touch with the accelerator and a MINI with a suitably buoyant suspension setup.

This footage from AFP gives a little more of a behind the scenes look:

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Comments (26)

banjarmon
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 1:24am
Now do it backwards!

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...sam
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:29am
too late…. teddy k all ready did it…..no ramp and a bottle of scotch!

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1977
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 8:58am
This was cool,but if you want to see “AWESOME” then you want to see a monster truck do a backflip. Nitro Circus did it in 2010 & Ghost Ryder did it in 2009. Long before this little mini. Other monster trucks who have done a backflip are Mohawk Warrior & Max-D

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Lion420
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:43pm
Not so fast…anyone thinking this is something new hasn’t seen The James Bond movie “Live and Let Die” from 1973. Driving an AMC Hornet, James Bond went in a 360 degree corkscrew, over a river. I will give this stunt it’s deserved props…the Mini is a much better looking car, and vertical flip looks cooler.

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- busterpuddles
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:10am
  I remember that corkscrew stunt! That was awesome! This mini wasn’t too bad either. I’ve never seen a lifted mini before.
  
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- Pouncing Porcupine
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:46am
  That wasn’t “Live and Let Die”, it was “The Man With the Golden Gun”, my all-time favorite JB movie.
  
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- Ditto Head
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:49am
  That wasn’t from “Live and Let Die”, it was from my all-time favorite James Bond movie “The Man With the Golden Gun”.
  
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lylejk
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:37pm
Idiot or Awesome; you folk decide. Still, you have to admit that this is a cool stunt. :)

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bankerpapaw
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:31pm
Well, that’s one way to beat the morning rush.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:13am
  Bring your own ramp.
  
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woodyee
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:12pm
Why?

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- hawaiianninja
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:53pm
  Because it’s entertainment and it gives people something to talk about, thus also possibly making it effective advertising.
  
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lowerclassrepublican
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:42pm
A car still has not done the stunt. This was a ATV with a fiberglass mini body on it. Just listen to the sound and watch the front shocks.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:08pm
  Thanks a lot….I guess now you are gonna tell me there is no Santa Claus too….Why dont you just throw the Easter Bunny into a wood chipper while your at it….Thanks.
  
  This is why I like Beck better than that mainstream crap, hes got cooler stuff……But there is Nitro Circus and Nuclear Cowboys which is really cool as well.
  
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wilbstal
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:24pm
this junk show Obamas impeachment

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whatthecrazy
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:25pm
Wow there are those of us that are that are busy fretting about being killed by our Government and getting our learn on, as Lucy Larue would put it and then there are those doing flips in cars.I’m not judgeing it’s just i can’t even plan for a vacation (much needed)as i’m not sure when the Government plans to do it;s dirty deed.I feel like i want to be with my family when the time comes.:((

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- Ditto Head
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:44am
  If I were you I’d loosen the tin-foil hat a couple of clicks.
  The government isn’t trying to kill you, moron.
  
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Polarized America
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:19pm
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The 360 car spin in a James Bond film was much better,..i can’t remember the name of the film though

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- Jim S
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:38pm
  BBC Top Gear’s Clarkson pulled this off in the sewers/waterlines of Scotland a few years back..in a KIA !!!..
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:10pm
  There is no way George Bush could have done anything this cool…..Must have been Obama in that car.
  
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- Ditto Head
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:42am
  “The Man With the Golden Gun”
  
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Zipit
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:11pm
Not impressed!

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- 1947
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:38pm
  Big Deal…. They do in France all the time….
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:12pm
  The only place on earth that has the Nuclear Cowboys is in the US……Nuff said.
  
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Lando
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:06pm
its been done before

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:16pm
  Obama did this back in the 80′s with a Pinto……No big deal.
  
  Well he almost did it until the Evil Republicans stopped him with a bungee cord and Vaseline.
  
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