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 ...

The original BMC Mini is widely considered to be one of the most technically influential cars of all time. Its transverse front-wheel drive layout is the basic design of nearly all mass-market small ...

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 ...