Five Royal British Marines out of Portsmouth who practiced for two straight weeks, in order to show off their impressive skills in this department.. As nerve wracking as it may be to go from practice to the real thing, these five mechanics worked well in sync to achieve this feat and all that tough work paid off impressively! It almost took as long to get that Ford Escort across the finish line than it did to swap the engine! For their efforts, these men managed to make it to the Famous Guinness Book of World Record. But for their swift moves one question has been raised as to which cars are the best for engine swapping?

Turns out – it’s a break between the Volkswagen Beetle and vehicles like the classic Ford Escort. But really, swapping out an engine like that was really only possible back in the world of non-computerized vehicles. Now, there’s certainly a lot more to swapping out an engine as it would throw the world records aside. Some curious, folks in the UK are still trying to push that envelope with the Volkswagen Beetle.

One of the tricks? Clamping the fuel lines. It’s a little detail like that which can turn a routine engine swap into a mess. These guys are expert VW mechanics who are intimately familiar with both the Beetle and the VW line of vehicles in general. After all its the same company which engineered one of the most iconic economy cars has a main market share in high end performance SUVs like the V10 Touareg.