From its launch on 20 September 1961 the Mini Cooper caused a
sensation. The world's first sports saloon, the diminutive Cooper
combined the glamour and racing heritage of 1959 and 1960 Formula 1
champions the Cooper Car Company with the outstanding handling and
downright practicability of the Austin Mini Seven and Morris Mini
Minor. Alec Issigonis's little people's car had been launched by
the manufacturer, the British Motor Corporation (BMC), two years
earlier. A winner almost from the word go, the Mini Cooper not only
ruled the racetracks and rally stages of the early and mid-1960s
but proved to be a practical and fun sporting family saloon car.
After over 100,000 examples were sold between 1961 and 1971, the
Mini Cooper is still a practical sporting saloon in the guise of
the BMW-owned MINI Cooper sixty years after the introduction of the
original model. This remarkable product of the United Kingdom
merits a fresh examination as it nears its sixtieth birthday. Based
upon over fifty face-to-face interviews carried out by the author
over more than a decade, this book quotes the Mini Cooper's
designers, developers, and professional race and rally drivers plus
a host of contemporary owners.
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