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.

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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.

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Reliability and buoyancy have become issues as the vehicle was repeatedly modified for new missions.

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Together, the two of them take on the Los Angeles underworld as the Green Hornet and his sidekick, masked men driving around in an armed vehicle that looks like an insufficiently modified Lincoln Town Car.

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Direct ascent interceptors such as exo-atmospheric ABM missiles, ballistic missiles with modified guidance logic, space boosters carrying nuclear payloads, and homing vehicles such as the miniature vehicle system undergoing development by the United States.

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Rather than a vehicle that acts as a chauffeur at all times, Newman's vision for the modified Nissan Leaf, dubbed RobotCar, is for it to take control on select occasions.

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