In the final part of our interview, Jon Pressnell, author of ‘Mini - The Definitive History’ (published by Haynes), talks about the impact the Mini had on the Sixties. (Photographs taken from the book and reproduced by kind permission.)
A number of celebrities owned Minis - manager Brian Epstein gave a Mini-Cooper S to every member [...]
Part 2 of our interview with Jon Pressnell, author of ‘Mini - The Definitive History’ (published by Haynes). (You can view Part 1 here)
Were Minis relatively cheap to buy compared with other cars of that era?
JP: They were too cheap! That was the fundamental problem. Technology costs money. The Mini was an expensive car to [...]
Jon Pressnell, author of ‘Mini - The Definitive History’, published by Haynes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the car, has a chat with us to talk about why the Mini was such a popular vehicle in the Sixties.
The Mini was THE iconic car of the Sixties. Yet I was surprised to read in your [...]
The first Mini was unveiled to the public on 26th August 1959, three years after the design was first sketched out on a napkin by British engineer Sir Alec Issigonis, and became THE iconic car of the Sixties. Appropriately, the brand celebrates its 50th birthday at Silverstone racetrack on the weekend of 22nd-24th May with [...]