So we tried to get more information on the next generation MINI but evidently the company is keeping a lock on the news…
It was fifty years ago – August 26, 1959 to be exact - that British Motor Corporation revealed the result of their development activities in creating a new compact car. The MINI was born!
It began with two new models: The Morris Mini-Minor and the Austin Seven, both with seating for four jockeys, or two nose tackles. Production of the classic Mini just kept on keeping on, finally coming to a stop in the year 2000. Then, as we all know, came the re-birth of the brand with the market launch of the new MINI in 2001.
The brand, MINI, celebrated their gold anniversary with people from all over the world wallowing in their collective MINI heritage. The festival was held at Silverstone Race Track in Great Britain last week.
MINI lovers came from Russia, Spain, Greece and Sweden. They enjoyed music, shopping for new MINI parts and accessories, racing around the track in their own Minis, Mini driver training, a carwash with some lovely ladies and seeing dozens of tricked out MINIs… call them “variations on a theme.”
But what the hey. A party like this only comes along every 50 years.
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