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    The super Mini Cooper turns 60

    Jul 28, 2021 2 minutes
    Garry Dickens

    Happy 60th birthday to the Mini Cooper, which first came off the production line in September 1961.

    The original Mini was designed in 1959 by Sir Alec Issigonis (1906-88). The brief delivered to Issigonis by Leonard Lord in March 1957, then head of the British Motor Corporation (BMC), was to create a miniature,

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