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ANT-I-CLIMAX

TO combat this, the man who penned the Mini, Alec Issigonis, was put in charge of project ADO 19: the Ant.

It looked the part with four-wheel drive, 12-inch wheels, increased ground clearance and, by borrowing from the BMC parts bin, promised a good bottom line. Six experimental prototypes

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