You can trace a straight line from the cramped, fuel conscious streets of postwar Britain to the moment the 1959 Austin Mini Seven rolled into view and quietly rewrote the rules of small car design.

Every car has its moment. For the Austin Mini, that moment was the swinging '60s, rock 'n' roll and mini-skirts and an impossibly tiny economy car four-wheel sliding through corners, taking down ...

Just a few days ago, a garden variety right-hand-drive 1964 Mk1 Austin Mini sold at auction for $35,000 on Bring a Trailer. It is a nicely cloned Mk1 Cooper S, but if there's anything that makes me ...

The original Austin/Morris Mini, which debuted in 1959, remains a desirable classic—with such innovations as a space-saving transverse-mounted engine and front-wheel drive. But as a car you could use ...

More than anything, the third-generation "new" Mini being introduced by BMW is meant to pay tribute to one car, the first-generation "old" Mini, the fantabulous original of 1959 that soldiered ...