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1. Car of the Century January 15, 2012 The MINI is a small car made by the British Motor Corporation from 1959 until 2000. The original MINI is a British icon of the 1960s and its space-saving front-wheel-drive layout influenced a generation of car-makers. MINI’s reason for being produced was because of a fuel shortage caused by the 1956 Suez Crisis. Petrol was once again rationed in the UK, and sales of large cars dropped but the market for German bubble cars, a small economical automobile, boomed. Head of British Motor Corporation, Leonard Lord, detested these cars so much that, he vowed to design a 'proper miniature ca... (read more) Author: garry scott

2. Challenge Your Driving Skills With Mini Cooper December 04, 2011 Whenever I see a Mini cooper on the streets no matter what’s going on in my mind, I just stop and just breathe in the aura of the whole car. As these cars are still rarely found in the US streets so this time when I saw this car I just exactly knew what I should do next. I just knew that I should learn more about this car. So what I gathered was that this car was specially designed and built to accept and complete a challenge. The story goes like this that in 1957 there was this Suez Canal crisis that was happening and due to that the fuel costs just went soaring high. When this incident ... (read more) Author: Mark Hussay

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