image creditThe mini - iconographic British car as driven in The Italian Job and Austin Powers - celebrates its fiftieth birthday in August 2009. On August 26,1959, Project ADO15 was launched by The British Motor Company. Otherwise known as the Mini, this car would become an icon of the 1960s and, from then has enjoyed continued success in one guise or another.
Voted the second most influential car in history (after the Ford Model T) the design of the Mini allowed for eighty percent of its floor space to be used by passengers. Get your spark plugs out as we celebrate the ups and downs of this famous little British motor.
(via Robert-John)
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