We're British, Innit by Iain Aitch

Author:Iain Aitch [Aitch, Iain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007271320
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2008-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

MINI

From its inception, this car showed off everything that was good about post-war ingenuity and invention in Britain, mixing style with practicality in a package that the whole world admired. Designed by Greek-Briton Sir Alex Issigonis, the Mini provided a practical, compact, fuel-efficient car and a fillip to the car manufacturing industry with its affordable good looks and ability to slip straight into the growing pop culture. Produced from 1959 to 2000, the Mini was seen as the antithesis of the American gas-guzzler and was associated with the swinging sixties, the best of British rally driving and landed high-profile roles in films such as The Italian Job. The car’s handling may not have been the best and it may have been a little cramped, but it has become an icon of Britain, as recognisable as Big Ben, the Routemaster bus or the Union Flag. After being killed off in 2000 the Mini came back in 2001 as a kind of evil, undead version. Now manufactured by BMW and much larger in size, the car looked similar but behaved differently, appealing almost exclusively to estate agents. What had once marked a Briton out as cool now marks them out as an arse.

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