The Mini’s 65-year legacy is remarkable for a car modestly conceived to be cheap and efficient. Petrol rationing caused by the Suez Crisis led to Brits clamouring for more economical modes of transport, so in March 1957, BMC Chairman Leonard Lord tasked Alec Issigonis with devising a “proper small car” to force the expanding cluster of tiny bubble cars off the road.
Launched just two years and five months later, the Mini was a genuine
