Meet the FSM Niki. Another continuation of the Fiat 126 program, the Niki was built by Fabryka Samochodów Malolitrazowych (FSM) in Poland and was exported to Australia from 1989 to 1992. Keep in mind, in it’s stock form it’s a 650cc rear engined squeakmobile with drum brakes that could barely hit sixty miles an hour at top speed. And it was shipped to the land of blown V8s. Whoever authorized that program probably never heard the end of the ridicule. Yeah, it was dirt-cheap for the day, according to the local sources I’ve been able to find, but when a car makes a 1991 Geo Metro look positively luxurious and sporty by comparison, that’s not a good thing.

So what do you do with the little tin can? We’ve seen sportbike engine swaps that really wake these little 126s up, but this is Australia…and nothing says overkill quite like a built to the effing hilt Hemi with an iron lung on top wrapped up in a car so small that we wonder if the driver is simply yanking the cable that runs to the throttle. We imagine that this thing only has a universal joint between the trans and the rear axle, and we imagine that Dramamine has to be part of the program once you crack open the blades. That’s an engine that would torque-spin a Plymouth GTX…whoever the hell though putting it into a car the size of a medium-priced Maytag washer is undeniably insane. Awesome, but insane!