The Mini Turns 50
Published: January 26th, 2009
One of the greatest symbols of 20th-century Britain would have been 50 this year.
The only thing the car was badly missing was a full rear hatch, but that invention didn’t appear until 1965 when the Renault 16 came out. A brief history of the Mini can be found here.
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