Los Angeles (CNN) Mini Cooper unveiled its fastest street legal model yet at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week.

The Mini Cooper John Cooper Works GP has a 301-horsepower engine that offers a top speed of 165 miles an hour. This small but mighty car has just two seats inside and a big wing hanging off the back.

Only 3,000 of these cars will be produced and each will be individually numbered in a noticeable way. The production number, from 0001 through 3000, will appear in large digits on the corner of the car's front fender flare.

Mini has already decided that car number 0001 will go to a customer in the United States, but hasn't decided yet how they will choose who will get it. It will not be decided through an auction, said Mike Peyton, Mini's vice president for the Americas.

The fender flares themselves, which have openings to allow air to flow through them, are made from carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic. The material is recycled waste left over from the production of BMW i3 and i8 plug-in cars. (Mini is a subsidiary of BMW.)

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