Inflationary times
“A little goes a long way” was the message from British Leyland in 1973, by which time more than three million Minis had found buyers worldwide. Below a photograph of the latest Clubman saloon on an open road, this advert insisted that the Mini “has come a long way since it first greeted an astonished world”.
Just like today, the new-car buyers of 50 years ago were concerned about costs, hence this impressive claim about the Mini: “Its
