MINI's challenge of Porsche to a race at Road Atlanta is technically supposed to happen in a day's time, but it's far more complicated given that Porsche has yet to answer MINI's invites, not the least of which include a number of hilarious videos courtesy of MINI USA's big boss Jim McDowell, a parody of Rocky IV, an online petition, and even a flying a private plane with a banner on it over Porsche's US headquarters in Atlanta.

So with a race set to take place without an opponent yet, MINI has gone into complete overdrive in luring Porsche into accepting their challenge. The latest twist in this oddball saga has MINI offering about 400 people to watch the whole spectacle and they're bringing in their own fully-spec'd Porsche 911 Carrera S. The only problem is, Mini doesn't know who they can get to drive that Porsche and also, what does Porsche think of having one of their signature models in a MINI event with no company sanction whatsoever. Can you say hissy fit?

We don't know what's going to come out of this, but we do know that fireworks will fly. That's how MINI's done it before and there's no doubt in our minds that it's how they will do it again. We are sure they've got something planned that's going to take Porsche and everybody else by surprise.

Then again, Porsche should just accept the challenge, throttle MINI at the race, and get it over with. Right?

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