I’m sure most petrolheads have heard of MTV’s Pimp My Ride show where they take old junked cars and turn them into bling bling machines. Transformation is mainly in the form of looks and frankly I think some of them are really ugly.
Now this is something in a totally different league altogether.
In this episode of Top Gear, they take an old Russian marque, a Lada and send it to Lotus. The Lada is a pretty old car with faded red paint, and a 1.5 liter Lada engine making a grand total of 35bhp.

Before: Notice even the rear steel wheels are missing it’s hubcaps.
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