Exclusive: next Mission: Impossible film to track down rare Mini pedal box

Here’s TopGear.com’s roving correspondent, Cory Spondent, with his mostly incorrect exclusives from the world of motoring

A ninth instalment of the Mission: Impossible series is officially in the works, TopGear.com can exclusively reveal, with Tom Cruise set to return as disavowed superagent Ethan Hunt in a deadly race against time to locate a rare Mini pedal box.

Following the events of The Final Reckoning, Hunt swaps his career of saving the world for the quiet life, in which he spends his weekends fixing up a classic Mini and generally behaving like a man in his 60s is expected to.

But when he can’t get hold of an original pedal box to complete the job, he’s left with no choice but to re-assemble his closest allies at the IMF and embark on a breathless worldwide search involving death-defying stunts, hand-to-hand combat and ludicrous prosthetics.

“His mission, should he choose to accept it, is to track down the missing piece of his beloved project car,” said an insider. “But at what cost?

“Forget that this is a world in which you can synthesise any human face with a briefcase, this is also a world in which you can’t 3D print a clutch pedal. So neurgh.

“Having taken down shady terrorist networks and single-handedly prevented a global nuclear winter, finding a rare bit of an old car is truly Ethan Hunt’s toughest mission yet.

“And if you thought the biplane chase was good, just wait until you see a static 1960s icon shot in IMAX.”

A treatment for Mission: Impossible 10 is also being discussed. Plot details are yet to be firmed up, but the entire movie will be based around the line ‘This Land Rover will self-destruct in five seconds.’