The Mini craze hit Rath, like many others, during the 1960s while he was stationed with the military in Europe. He bought his first Mini in 1966, falling quickly for the car's road-holding and lively ...

To the enthusiast, fuel-economy and emissions mandates that push automakers to develop small cars are bad news. After all, there's no replacement for displacement, right? Well, fifty years ago, the ...

It was 60 years ago this week that the first Mini debuted, launching a small car revolution in the U.K. that managed to become one of the country's calling cards when it came to automotive style. The ...

In various forms, the MINI has been with us for more than half a century--but its image has always been shaped by the two-door model. The original BMC Mini had two doors and a small trunk; the BMW ...

Could a toy car from the British Motor Corp., with a 1071-cc four-cylinder engine, win the Rallye Monte Carlo outright, racing against other cars with much bigger and more powerful engines-up to ...

The original BMC Mini designed by Alec Issigonis was an absolute triumph of design and, arguably, set the template for the most common automotive layout used today: the transverse-engine, FWD layout.