A Dad Asked Castagna Milano to Create an Aston Martin-Inspired Citroen Ami for His 16 Y.O. Son
The Citroen Ami, a low-cost electric four-wheeler, received a custom conversion from Castagna Milano, which...
Tuning and Engine Swaps: Articles and Videos
Small cars make popular project cars: low weight rewards extra power, and an engine from a motorcycle, a sports car or an electric donor can change a tiny car completely. This page collects articles, videos and models about tuning and engine swaps from the Small Cars Club.
Browse the list alphabetically, or go straight to all articles and videos. For standard models, use the catalog A–Z.
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Acura’s 500hp V6 turns Mini into a perfect mid-engined slipper
The world famous Mini, developed by the British Automobile Corporation (BMC) in 1959, was conceived as a...
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Blow Funny Rider
The Funny Rider is a custom front-end conversion kit for Japanese kei trucks, designed with the...
BMW Isetta received a too powerful engine
The Isetta is a very funny tiny car that was produced by BMW from 1955 to 1962. It was based on the model of...
BMW master built Isetta styled truck with VW Type 3 engine for his shop
Holy crap, this thing looks awesome! Now you can buy this cool Isetta truck equipped with a Volkswagen...
Brabus Ultimate 125 is the loudest small car ever
As it turns out, you can be both loud as well as “smart” on the road, as long as you match the...
Brabus Ultimate E Is The Coolest Electric Smart EQ For $54,000
If Mercedes-Benz builds something, Brabus will start working on it without thinking. When an electric Smart...
Brabus will make only ten of very special Ultimate Sunseeker ‘One of Ten’
The exclusive Brabus Ultimate Sunseeker limited edition “One of Ten” is built on the basis of the...
Brabus will sell the new Smart Fortwo Brabus Ultimate 125 for the price of Porsche 718!
The first, and the only thing you need to know about the new Smart Fortwo Brabus Ultimate 125 is just how...
British Tuner Makes Renault Twizy F1 Replica That Looks Really Cool
The Renault Twizy is a quirky electric car, small, slow and boring. But in Britain there is one very cool...
Bulgarian tuning company Vilner made Brabus Smart ForTwo even cooler
If you think that the interior of the tuned by Vilner Lamborghini Huracan is screaming, you also need to...
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Caselani Type-Ami
The Italian company Caselani, which specializes in retro conversions of Citroën vehicles, has just surprised...
Check this cute Goggomobile after V8 swap
Aussie guys love to use V8 under the hood of cars where one never existed before. And this is the best...
Chinese Wuling Mini EV became a six-wheeled monster with gullwing-doors
Wuling Hongguang Mini EV is the most popular electric car in China, even ahead of Tesla, and the third most...
Citroen presented a spectacular “golden” Ami: this is how it will be used
Citroen‘s UK office has unveiled a gold version of the Ami electric car. In this way, the French car...
Classic Rover Mini was equipped with a Kawasaki Ninja engine
Thanks to the irrepressible imagination of some tuners unique vehicles are born. So the specialists of AMT...
Cute Leyland Mini with BMW E30 M3 styling
Sometimes cars tries to be not what they actually are. Just imagine a cute Leyland Mini with a styling of the...
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DC Design Minute
The 2006 DC Design Minute was a concept car created by Indian coachbuilder DC Design using the Maruti Suzuki...
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Electric Brabus Ultimate E is the slowest Brabus in the history
Some time ago Daimler AG announced that Smart refused to release models with an internal combustion engine,...
Electrogenic’s Easy-to-Install Kit Charges Classic MINIs Effortlessly, Though It May Hurt Your Wallet
Electrogenic, a UK-based company, has introduced a special conversion kit for classic Mini cars that turns...
Extremely narrow FSO Polonez just for two
The Internet often surprise us with its content. This time thanks to Polish mechanics who created a unique...
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Fiat 126 Is Extremely Fast With Honda CBR1000RR Engine
Tiny Fiat 126 received a second life. The small car was greatly modified with the Honda CBR1000RR engine...
Fiat 126 Proto P2 With Honda CBR 100RR Engine On A Racing Track
Proto P2 cars are a kind of racing karts with a closed body and very light weight. They are driven by...
Fiat 126 with Toyota MR2 engine — the great thing for drag racing
Yes, you can use Fiat 126 in drag racing. Adam Skinner from Taz Racing uses his 1991 Fiat 126 to beat...
Fiat Cinquecento with Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle engine on a racing track
Daniel Esposito modified its Fiat Cinquecento to compete in slalom racing. The 600 kg race car is equipped...
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Garia Golf Cart by Mansory
Mansory has updated the Garia Golf Cart, a luxury forged carbon golf cart. The tuning studio has made a name...
German tuner Mansory said goodbye to gasoline Smarts its own way
Tuning company Mansory is expanding its product portfolio with a refining program for the smallest...
Gilred Racing swapped this Mini with a Honda D16
Gildred Racing, based in Buellton, California, has transformed this Mini Mk3. The car now boasts a sleek...
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John DeLorean’s Son Made a Three-Wheeled DMC-12 And Went On Trial
Briton Ty DeLorean, who calls himself the son of DMC-12 creator John DeLorean, wants to produce a replica of...
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La Cinquecento Presented The Cutest Restomod You’ve ever seen
The Fiat 500 is one of the most successful modern reinterpretations of a classic car, but it is hard to beat...
Look At The Austin Mini With A Turbocharged Engine And AWD From The Audi A3
A very curious 1976 Austin Mini was put up for sale in the UK. One glance at it is enough to understand that...
Look at the Soviet tuning of the SMZ S-3A microcar
In Soviet times everyone dreamed of a car, because not many could afford it. Some had money for a Moskvich,...
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MINI Remastered Has Got a Guitar Tube Amplifier
British company David Brown Automotive unveiled a special version of the restomod MINI Remastered, dedicated...
Mini V8M
French company Lazareth Auto-Moto, known for the LMV 496 flying motorcycle, showed a Mini Moke restmode. It...
MINI Will Turn Classic Models Into Electric Cars
MINI has announced the start of an unusual campaign called Recharged, in which owners of classic models of...
Mini with a helicopter engine trolls Pagani Huayra BC in Las Vegas
You probably wonder if it is possible to modify Mini hatchback the way it can beat Pagani Huayra. Yes, you...
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Nissan Micra With Powertrain From Silvia S14 Is An Excellent Car For Drifting
Nissan March is probably one of the most inappropriate cars for drifting. It has a short wheelbase, which...
Now you can drift Smart Fortwo with Yamaha engine
The man behind the wheel of this Smart is Chris Boot from YouTube channel Shifted Interests who has swapped a...
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Paul Smith Turned a Classic Mini Into an Electric Car
British fashion designer Paul Smith, known for his unusual car projects with British automakers, presented...
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Romeo Ferraris made Cinque Qatar with 248 hp for the Persian Gulf
Here comes the ultimate Abarth Fiat 500 as a completely rebuilt thing from the tuner Romeo Ferraris. The...
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Saudi Prince’s Unusual MINI by Tickford to be Auctioned Off
A Saudi prince’s one-of-a-kind MINI is up for auction. The hatchback was built by Tickford as a...
Seat Arosa by Darkside got a 528 hp diesel with nitrous
This Seat Arosa Mk2 was built by Darkside Developments of Barnsley, UK. The standard engine was replaced by a...
Six-Wheeled Maluch: Polish Enthusiast Creates Unique Fiat 126.6p
The Fiat 126p is a legendary and iconic car that holds a special place in the hearts of automotive...
Smart ForTwo got a 200 hp engine from a Kawasaki superbike
Here is another cool Smart ForTwo project with swapped engine. As you probably know the base ForTwo has a...
Smart ForTwo was equipped with Suzuki Hayabusa engine
Youtuber Vini B bought this 2008 Smart Fortwo with a dead inline three-cylinder engine to convert it into...
Smartborghini is an Impressive Lamborghini Gallardo Caricature
This Lamborghini Gallardo replica is based on a 2014 SMART Fortwo. An unusual homemade car received many...
Someone shortened Volkswagen Beetle and it looks like a cartoon car
This dwarf Volkswagen Beetle lives in Qatar, and it is absolutely real, despite its cartoon look. It was...
Specter Type 10 is Mini with 230 hp and RWD
Despite the fact that the current Minis are extremely entertaining, it does not have the cachet of the...
Suzuki Alto Works by KC Technica is a great time attack kei-car
This year’s Rev Speed Super Battle at Tsukuba Circuit was swarmed by a lot of affordable and tuned...
Suzuki Twin gets Pixar’s Cars inspired body kit by Kotaku
Japanese car enthusiasts have always done things a little different. Case in point, these bumpers inspired by...
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Tesla Powered Classic Austin Mini
Gildred Racing collaborated with Electric Classic Cars to create a remarkable 1971 Austin Mini Mk3. The...
The custom Fiat 126p from Poland has a Fiat Croma 2.0 L engine
Another day – another story about custom Fiat 126p. This project from Poland was built by Damian Kurcz. It...
The designer came up with the world’s first Mini RWB
After the war, British buyers needed something really small, capable of squeezing in traffic jams and not...
The most incredible and crazy tuning of Mini with a massive V8
Holley LS Fest West dedicated to the Chevrolet LS V8 engines was held in Las Vegas. You could see a lot of...
The Shortened Classic Morris Mini 1000 For Sale
The classic Morris Mini 1000 which has been made even smaller will be sold in October on the Car &...
The Ultimate Customized 1971 Fiat 500 with Honda B16B engine on Sale
A customized 1971 Fiat 500 is currently for sale at Hemmings in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is equipped with...
This 1970s Mitsubishi Minica F4 is fitted with a Kawasaki Motorcycle Engine
Swapping a big engine in a small car is the receipt of speed. This was the main idea of creating this A103...
This cute R32 GT-R looks like an AI glitch but it actually exists
What if the wildest GT-R at the 2026 Tokyo Auto Salon wasn’t a Nissan at all? At a glance, this thing looks...
This Daewoo Matiz Has Been Reimagined as a Porsche 996
The Daewoo Matiz, also sold under Chevrolet badges and even as a Pontiac in Mexico, is best known as an...
This Fiat 126P makes 150 hp at 12,500 rpm thanks to Hayabusa engine
This is one of the craziest Fiat 126P we’ve ever seen. It is build by Cyclon Motorsport from Brasov,...
This Fiat Topolino dragster finishes 1/4 miles in 9 seconds
You will be surprised, but the heart of this dragster is the Fiat Topolino microcar. As you can see, the...
This is the only mid-engined Smart ForTwo with a 160 hp 1.8-liter engine
The original Smart does not seem to be the right choice for any driver, but it’s not the usual ForTwo....
This modified Renault Twizy delivers almost double the torque of a Lamborghini V12 supercar
The now-discontinued Renault Twizy was always known for its sci-fi looks, scissor doors, and tandem seating...
This restomode Mini Remastered looks like the Classic Mini but costs $100,000
David Brown Automotive unveiled an advanced Mini microcar at the Geneva Motor Show, which received the...
This turbocharged Mini is the lightweight beast with 156 hp
You might be a Ford fan, or Chevrolet fan, or BMW and other German cars. But there are some cars that all we...
Tiny Mini gets a Honda Civic Type R motor
If you want to drive a fast and fun car, but can’t afford something powerful and expensive, you should...
Tiny Toyota Turned Into A Crazy Sports Car With A Kawasaki Ninja Engine
The Japanese tuner known as ZR250Aniki on Twitter has announced its latest project that will be shown at the...
Trabant 601 with a Volkswagen Turbo Diesel
Let me introduce you this 1986 Trabant 601 Deluxe. It had a 594 cc two-stroke two-cylinder engine when it...
Trabant Turned Into a Beast: It Drifts, Makes 120 HP, and Has Suspension Worth Hundreds of Thousands of Crowns
A roaring Trabant slides sideways, performing moves that were once unthinkable for this humble East German...
Turbocharged Smart With Honda K-series Engine Is A Perfect Idea
One of the features of the Smart is its tiny sizes and light weight. Therefore, it is enough to swap the...
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Vilner’s Bulgarian tuning atelier made the coolest Trabant 1.1
Vilner’s Bulgarian atelier has built a restomod of the main car of the GDR – Trabant 1.1. The...
Volkswagen Lupo with two 6-liter W12 from VW Phaeton
Over the summer Andre Pötsch debuted his crazy “12-liter” twin-engine Volkswagen Lupo. The...
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Watch The Fastest Smart In The World: It Has A 9-liter Engine
A video of a drag race of an unusual Smart, which is called the world’s fastest Smart, has been...
What Would Premium Cars Look In A Form Of Microcars
Virtual designers usually take some kind of cool supercar as a basis and add various crazy elements from...
World’s Least Powerful Gullwing Door Sports Car Finally Gets The Rotary Power It Deserves
If you have even a passing interest in obscure JDM curiosities, the Mazda Autozam AZ-1 is probably already on...
WRX-powered Mini is a street-legal GO-Kart
Builders often choose a Honda engine and front-wheel-drive configuration to make small cars like the Mini...
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You Won’t Believe the Engine Inside This Little BMW-Powered Fiat
The Fiat 126 was produced in a single, remarkably long generation from 1972 all the way to 2000, with most...
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Zastava 750 with a BMW motorcycle engine is ready for races
Tihomir Acimic and his son Jovan Acimic prepares cool Zastava 750 micrcoar for hill climb races. Zastava 750...
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150 HP Bond Bug 3-Wheeler Is The Best Way to Say Goodbye to Life
The British Bond Bug is not usually associated with speed, mainly because it has 3 wheels and a stunted 29bhp...
1959 Autobianchi Bianchina will get inline-four engine from a superbike
As you probably know, Autobianchi Bianchina was fitted with a tiny 479 cc or 499 cc straight-twin engine....
1960s Mazda Carol kei-car fitted with a Harley-Davidson V-Twin
Mooneyes Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show — is the great place for all JDM fans. There are a lot of Skylines,...
300 hp Bond Bug with Hayabusa motorcycle engine running a 11.22 sec quarter-mile
Probably you have already seen this Bond Bug, powered by a Hayabusa superbike engine. Once on the Santa Pod...
350 WHP MINI Cooper Powered by a Turbo Honda Engine
For those who argue that front-wheel-drive vehicles lack excitement, a test drive in this MINI Cooper would...
350HP Seat Arosa is the perfect Nurburgring sleeper microcar
The SEAT Arosa is one of the last names that comes to mind when one mentions a track day. And this is...