Phil s Mini venture started out during a Covid-hit 2021. At the age of 26, he took his love for this favourite film, the 1969 blockbuster, The Italian Job, and turned it into his next business venture.
The Mini is Britain s most iconic car having brought affordable motoring to the masses. But this week marks the beginning of the end for the combustion-engined Mini as this will be the last with petrol power.
It’s a case of in with the new and… in with the old as well. Starting next year, there will be two dramatically distinct Mini Coopers from BMW.
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To fix the environment we must invest wisely. The British car industry needs to return to UK-based production with a focus on affordable electric cars.
Forty-two years ago, the automotive world was in the grip of an utterly insane obsession. Within a space of 18 months, America’s “Big Three” introduced more than a dozen new models ranging from the dirt-cheap Ford Escort and the Plymouth Reliant K to the upscale Cadillac Cimarron, with family-sized cars from Buick, Mercury, Oldsmobile, and others in-between. They had just one thing in common, and it was an important thing: the combination of a transverse (sideways) mounted engine and front-wheel drive introduced by the British Motor Corporation Mini in 1959 and popularized by the Honda Civic in 1973.