We love every car we feature in Performance MINI because if we didn’t, we wouldn’t feature them in the first place, but some cars just hit different and SpeedTech Motorsports’ R56 Cooper S is one such car. This MINI goes hard on every level – it looks so good, it sits so right, the interior is special and, as you would expect from a company with the word ‘speed’ in its name, it’s got some serious power on tap. R56s really don’t get much better than this.
SpeedTech Motorsports has been around for over 10 years and specialises in VW, Audi, and, of course, MINI. For company owner Abraham Viera, his interest in MINIs was piqued many years ago when he first drove a customer’s R53 and the rest, as they say, is history. When it came to this R56 build, there was a very specific reason for choosing this car and a clear plan for the project. “We wanted to challenge ourselves into making an N14 engine reliable despite the reputation it has built for itself,” explains Abraham. “We found the car online. The body was in good condition, but the car wasn’t running because of the engine misfiring. Our plan for the car from the beginning was to build it into the first N14
