Month: August 2019

Keith Adams There are plenty of cars that have achieved notoriety during their lifetimes – one only has to look at the Boulevard of Broken Dreams that is the British […]

It changed the way we looked at small cars almost overnight, and sent the Designers scurrying back to the drawing boards – the Mini was little short of a major […]

The Clubman was developed through BMC’s desire to expand the Mini concept, without spending too much money. It started out as a hatchback proposal penned by Roy Haynes, and then developed into something rather less useful. […]

In 1974, Leyland’s Italian subsidiary Innocenti introduced a rebodied, three-door hatchback Mini, styled by Bertone. However, within a year of its launch, BLMC went bankrupt, the company was sold to […]

It’s the 60th Anniversary of the Mini’s launch in 1959. A good time, then, for Ian Nicholls to chart the origins and production history of this car in what is […]

The automotive media loves a major anniversary, it gives it an excuse to trot out special articles on the product in question and 2019 is no exception – the BMC […]

During the recent National Metro and Mini Show at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon I happened to stumble across the last Austin Maxi built, assembled at Cowley in July […]

Courtesy of the thousands of replacement bodyshells and individual panels it has manufactured over the last 40 years, British Motor Heritage (BMH) has arguably done more than any other company […]

Here’s another in AROnline’s series of articles featuring archive images to mark the 60th birthday of the Mini. The 1960s may have been The Beatles’ decade, but it was also the Mini […]

Producing safety concepts was extremely fashionable during the 1970s – Calspan and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) produced the Chrysler Alpine RSV. This was a very American take […]

Worthing-based International Automotive Developments (IAD) decided to raise its profile with a TR7 facelift project called the IAD TRX… The design consultancy came up with was a very 1980s incarnation […]

AROnline is, as previously indicated, using the excuse that 2019 marks the 60th anniversary of the Mini to publish images which cannot be used elsewhere on the site. Our Mini development […]