Summary
For the best part of half a century, the Mini has been a star player on the global motoring stage. From those early days of 1959, through the swinging sixties to the autumn of the year 2000, this Alec Issigonis creation became a motoring legend with more than five million rolling off the production lines at the old Longbridge works in Birmingham.
Since BMW took over the brand in April 2001, more than 800,000 models have been produced at the German car giant's Plant Oxford, with 200,000 of these having been sold in the UK alone. With the early part of next year set to welcome an all-new version of the Mini, I recently took the opportunity to revisit the current model.See the full content of this document
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Converted to a Topless Legend of the Road
I opted for the convertible version which joined the current Mini line-up a couple of years ago and is available in three models ( Mini One, Cooper and Cooper S.
Thankfully, like the original Min...See the full content of this document
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