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As a package, the Mini was a clever car, no doubt about that. But could it be improved upon? Well, there have literally been hundreds of budding car designers who thought they could do just that and started enhancing Issigonis’ baby from the early 1960s on. But the fact is that very few succeeded. Many of the Mini derivatives they came up with may have looked smart on paper but they were doomed to fade into obscurity, leaving behind a

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