SEVEN HEAVEN
It’s all too easy to forget just how much the Mini has changed over the years. True, from its 1959 inception to its swansong in 2000, the fundamental and defining characteristics remained unchanged. Characteristics such as the brilliant use of interior space, class-leading handling, peppy performance and sheer ‘joie de vivre’. Yet, due to the ever-changing dictates of fashion, corporate changes/ amalgamations, refinements and improvements and a proliferation of different variants, it became ever-more distanced from its roots.
Back in the Mini’s infancy, during those formative first years, things were, quite literally, much simpler.
SIMPLER TIMES
In the very early days, if you wanted your Mini saloon-shaped
