Wow I'm so impressed with the numbers this little car put up, and on RUNFLATS, and an open diff. They compared it against a Civic Si sedan, Nissan Sentra, Mazdaspeed 3, and VW GTI all with performance tires. If it can put up those numbers on runflats and no LSD, I wonder what type of numbers it can put with some simple upgrades like tires, a LSD, and the suspension package.

They ranked it 4th overall, but that was because of other stuff like comfort, the big speedo, blah, blah, etc. On performance alone it ranked 2nd, only losing to the Mazdaspeed 3.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/article....rticle_id=5246

Click on the data panel link.

 

MINI can keep up with them with all season tires any day.... literally.