Happy birthday, Mini! It seems astonishing to say it – you are 50 years old. But like many an ageing celebrity there is some doubt about when you actually first came into the world.
It could have been in July 1957 when your creator, Alec Issigonis, thrashed the very first prototype around the British Motor Corporation’s factory at Longbridge, Birmingham – and his boss, the gruff Sir Leonard Lord, barked: “Build the bloody thing!”
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