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When the 1959 Mini prototype quietly rewrote design rules

The first Mini prototype of 1959 did not arrive with fanfare or a manifesto about changing the car industry. It appeared as a ...
Wired

The Latest Trend in Microcars Positions the Engine as Backseat Driver

* Illustration: Feric * Half a century ago, the BMC Mini defined the modern econobox: a small front-mounted engine in a front-wheel-drive car that was easy to handle and compact yet spacious. This ...
autoweek

Mini Crashes the Party : 40 years ago Paddy Hopkirk and the Finns made the mouse roar for BMC

Could a toy car from the British Motor Corp., with a 1071-cc four-cylinder engine, win the Rallye Monte Carlo outright, racing against other cars with much bigger and more powerful engines-up to ...
Jalopnik

This Strangely Cartoonish Little Car You Never Heard Of Had The Mini's Innovations 13 Years Earlier

The original BMC Mini is widely considered to be one of the most technically influential cars of all time. Its transverse front-wheel drive layout is the basic design of nearly all mass-market small ...
Green Car Reports

2015 MINI Cooper S Hardtop 4-Door: Gas Mileage Review

In various forms, the MINI has been with us for more than half a century--but its image has always been shaped by the two-door model. The original BMC Mini had two doors and a small trunk; the BMW ...