In an exclusive announcement, we’ve been told that Paddy Hopkirk’s Mini Cooper from season 5 of Top Gear has finally been restored!

It had been previously reported that there was a huge fiasco where the garage charged to restore it tried to rip off the BBC, so the BBC wouldn’t pay them and as a result, the garage refused to let go of the car. While that was never confirmed, it does sound like a reasonable explanation.

Regardless though, this is good news for all of wondering what happened to the car and who wanted to see the final project as we’ll probably be seeing it in this upcoming series. Word is that it looks “fantastic”. Woo hoo!