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MINI — 50 Years

From swingin' sixties darling to racing champ to twenty-first-century hipster transport, the diminutive Mini has made it big from the first.

A favorite among patient, nostalgic drivers and now among new, performance-minded drivers, Mini and MINI seamlessly combine economy and style.

With a smart book design as playful as the car that inspired it, MINI — 50 Years tells the full story of the iconic car, from its initial launch in the late 1950s through its current superhip BMW-built incarnation—right up to the revised version released in late 2006.

The threads that tie together the original Mini and today's are numerous and fascinating—almost as interesting as the differences that set the two cars apart— and MINI — 50 Years follows them all.

Table of Contents

Ackowledgments
Mini Trinity: Classic, Current, and Future
Issigonis Starts Work
BL to BMW
Making It
Cooper's the Name. Speed is the Game
The Man Behind the Brand
The Man Behind the Style
Hello Again, Sir. Now What?
Mini and the Coachbuilding Tradition
Get Involved: A Guide to Learning More and Seeing Other Dimensions of the Mini Tradition
The Men from the MINIstry in Munich
What's Next?
What's New?
Appendices
Index

About the Author

Rob Golding has become the recognized Mini biographer having written two previous books about the car. He has tracked the car's fifty years of development while working as a motoring and motorsports writer, as a business journalist, and as an auto industry analyst. For his latest book on the subject, he was given unrivaled access to the people who made the story.

PRODUCT DETAILS:

Publisher: Motorbooks International — 2007
Author: Rob Golding
Binding: Hardcover — 9¼ x 6¼ inches
Pages: 176 — Hundreds of color photos, plus some b&w
ISBN: 9780760326275

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