Behind the wheel of the Mini Countryman is Guerlain Chicherit, famed world champion of the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, who managed to launch a modified version of the vehicle off an 8-meter high ramp, do a full 360 degree back-flip, and land it back on all four tires.

FORBES: MINI Partners With Monster Energy For First Ever Car Back-flip

If you take the highs of the trailers and demo and the lows of the actual release, this new version of A:CM is what you get: a cross somewhere between the two.

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App developers can access the natively-integrated AAC-ELD codec through the Fraunhofer FDK Codec Library in Android since version 4.1 and in iOS since version 4.0 as well as in OSX, allowing cross-platform deployment of Full-HD Voice.

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Behind the wheel of the Mini Countryman is Guerlain Chicherit, famed world champion of the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, who managed to launch the the modified version of the vehicle off an 8-meter high ramp, do a full 360 degree back-flip, and land it back on all four tires.

FORBES: MINI Partners With Monster Energy For First Ever Car Back-flip

As part of the cross-form factor convergence, Unity will be getting a rewrite entirely in QT and QML (the current version uses a Nux-based shell on the desktop).

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