Mini: The Car That Rocked the Nation

By Christy Campbell

There's a lot to say in the biography of a fifty year old and in this delightful book Christy Campbell looks back over the life of a national treasure, from the initial challenge of creating a British car that would seat four, use an existing engine and be smaller than anything else around, to its Sixties glory days and the design flaws that made Wellington boots essential driving kit. From its birth in 1959, the Mini grew to become a huge success u Princess Margaret owned one, as did Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, the Beatles, Peter Sellers and Marianne Faithful. Its popularity with women in particular marked it out from the crowd, and as the car was taken up by the new urban elite and took a starring role in The Italian Job, sales soared. But there was trouble u the basic Mini sold for less than it cost to produce, and by the early Eighties the miracle machine had become a symbol of manufacturing incompetence. The end came in 2000, but a new generation of Minis was just around the corner, and today th

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753515784
• ISBN13: 9780753515785
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Length: 288 Pages