I have cupboards full of car magazines with Classic Mini articles in them
collected when I was hugely enthusiastic about the wee car in my teens and early
20s. I've decided that there's no point in them hiding in the dark, and
I'll scan them online for you to share! You may also be
interested in the Brochures
Archive.
1988 (I think) clever television advert - "Mini's Have Feelings Too"
Autocar - 29 March 1989
Russel Bulgin drove a basic Mini City and loved it!
Auto Express 1989 - Mini Reprieved!
The tide turns...
March 10 1989 : Auto Express
Full Page Advert for the Mini Racing Green, Mini Flame Red, Mini Sky
and Mini Rose.
Three Millionth Mini :
Note : I think this is actually a mistake! It must have
been either 4 or 5 million by this stage...
Autocar - 14 June 1989 : "Return of the White Roof"
A Very important article - the return of the Mini Cooper after nearly 20
years! This conversion kit and the Racing Green and Flame Red special
editions were Rover "testing the water" for interest in a Cooper comeback.
Important for me too - my Mum had a brand new Racing Green Mini at the time and
I was dying to get this conversion fitted - my 17th birthday was only 5 months
away...
... and a road test of the ERA Turbo - a car which I drooled over at the
Motor Show later that year...
Another test of the Cooper Conversion, this time included in the
Mini 30 event brochure
Car & Car Conversions (CCC) Road test of the Mini ERA Turbo
What Car - July 1989
Testing the newly launched Mini 30 versus its small car rivals. (Note that
the Mini is mentioned throughout the article, not just on the page that shows
the picture of the Mini).
Autocar - 23 Aug 1989
Full Road Test of Mini Mayfair 1.0
Mini 30 Event Flyer - Silverstone, August 27th 1989
Thirty Mini Years
Performance Car - September 1989
(Mini 30th Anniversary Issue)
Testing a brand new AX-GT against a 1971 MkIII Mini Cooper S :
Testing a Mini ERA Turbo, Mini BAC M-30 & Mini SX 1400 :
Autocar 29 August 1990 "A Tale of Two Coopers"
The freshly returned Mini Cooper takes on its 1971 predecessor
CAR - August 1990 - Mini Cooper Rides Again
Fast
Lane - October 1990
The return of the Mini Cooper.
What Car - Feb 1991
Autocar - 8th May 1991
Full Road test of Mini Cooper S upon its return after 20 years...
CAR
- November 1991
Rowan Atkinson revels in the comic-strip
appeal and simplicity of the Mini
Cooper.
CAR - May 1992
Will there ever be a better mini than the Mini? LJK Setright
compares Fiat's brand-new city car, the Cinquecento, with the very first Mini.
Top Gear - 1993 - Jeremy Clarkson tests the Mini Cooper 1.3i versus
the (then) new Fiat Cinquecento Sporting
CAR - September 1995
Mini Cooper 1.3Si
Top
Gear - September 1995
Mini Cooper S
Complete
Car - October 1995
Brief test of Mini Cooper 1.3Si
The Mini won Autocar's Car of the Century competition and as part of
this Rover ran a series of small newspaper ads like the ones below.
I loved these and would print them and stick them in the window of my
then new Mini Sprite 1.3i.
Performance Car - February 1997.
Testing the newly revised Mini range. (mpi /airbag models)
