Fully charged
Everybody loves an underdog. We see it in sport, culture, politics – hell, even at the Academy Awards. We just can’t help but root for the Davids fighting Goliaths. Psychologists will tell you it’s because we get more pleasure out of unexpected successes. But maybe it’s also that we respect adaptability, innovation, and admire grit. Either way, there is a reason why the humble Mini has survived all these years as an icon. Because, at its very core, it has always been the little car that could.
Scratched onto a tablecloth in 1956 by Morris engineer Sir Alec Issigonis and put into production in 1959, the Mini was a solution to European
