You want to talk about performance? Here’s a car with a 78-litre V18 engine boosted by 12 turborchargers and developing 3,500bhp. That makes for an eye-watering 14,000Nm of torque. Needless to say the original Austin Mini that’s playing host to this monster unit – and which had just 80Nm when it was factory fresh – can’t actually move under its own power. Check out the heavy duty support struts underneath the car. The display model has been built by Cummins to showcase its latest product, the largest diesel engine to be built in the UK. Tipping the scales at more than 11 tonnes, the unit is called the QSK78 and its day job will be to power massive mining industry dumper trucks. A company spokesman said some wag had joked about fitting the engine in his Mini. “We never like to let a challenge go by unanswered so we got to thinking. It proved to be a bit tricky to fit under the bonnet but our engineers came up with a more creative solution.”
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