Every car has its moment. For the Austin Mini, that moment was the swinging '60s, rock 'n' roll and mini-skirts and an impossibly tiny economy car four-wheel sliding through corners, taking down ...

Just a few days ago, a garden variety right-hand-drive 1964 Mk1 Austin Mini sold at auction for $35,000 on Bring a Trailer. It is a nicely cloned Mk1 Cooper S, but if there's anything that makes me ...

The 1963 Morris Mini Minor did not simply update an existing small car formula, it rewrote it. By compressing radical ...

Then, through the Sixties, the company was famed for its cheerful, classless, rollerskate-on-wheels original Mini. Due to the dubious magic of badge engineering, however, identical Minis were sold by ...

More than anything, the third-generation "new" Mini being introduced by BMW is meant to pay tribute to one car, the first-generation "old" Mini, the fantabulous original of 1959 that soldiered ...

The Mini brand, of course, hasn't always existed as we know it today -- a subsidiary of BMW. The company started life as a model that wore both Morris and Austin badges. At the time, Austin and Morris ...

As is often the case, the creation of the MINI brand was spawned by necessity. Not by the necessity to be admired, to shock or to outrun every other kid on the block who owned a car. MINI came to be ...