Alec Issigonis first sketched the Mini's simple lines on a restaurant table cloth. In four decades it has become an icon. This symbol of irreverence and fun arrived at a time when the world was prepared to embrace the new and unusual.
Issigonis, was a brilliant designer. He dived into the task of producing a car with a tremendous amount of interior space in a small package. This had never been done before. He and his team were determined to comfortably pack four passengers in a bold, racy car.
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