Sir Alec Issigonis' Mini was launched on 26th
August 1959, changing the face of the car industry forever.
The world's favourite small car stayed in continuous production, largely
unchanged, until the year 2000.
It was a small cheap run-around in the time of a fuel crisis, a fashion
icon in the sixties, and a legend on the race tracks of the world,
having won the British and European Saloon car championships, and the
celebrated Monte Carlo rally three times then back to being an economy
car before finally ending up as an ultra-cool "retro" car for the 90s
with a huge following from people of all ages.
I started these Mini pages in around 1995 when my Mini obsession was at
its greatest and when I'd driven nothing else.
Click the buttons on the left to explore the hundreds of mini pages from
sexist old adverts, details of the last models, archive material, and
information from the very end of Mini production.
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