This classic electric Mini costs $100,000, but just look at it

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UK company Swind turns on the cuteness with this Mini reinvention.

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Lewis Hamilton owns 15 cars, uses tow trucks to keep the mileage low

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Including a pair of LaFerraris and a custom Zonda.

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Paul McCartney’s Aston sells for $1.8M; Ringo Starr’s old Mini goes to a Spice Girl

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The Mini also appeared on "Top Gear."

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David Brown Automotive remasters classic Mini at maxi price

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A luxurious treatment of the Mini.

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The original Mini Cooper still has universal appeal

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Petrolicious Classic Mini

It sold over five million units. It was voted the second most influential car of the last century, bested only by the pioneering Ford Model T. It counted among its owners Steve McQueen, Enzo Ferrari and Peter Sellers. It is the classic Mini.

The tiny, two-box, four-seat hatch is an automotive icon of the first order and it's high time it featured in an episode of Petrolicious. Of course, the video gurus did it right, filming this handsome 1971 Mini, which has been modified to accommodate the 1,275-cc four-cylinder from the Mini Cooper S of the time.

Its owner, Sumner Norman, describes life with his right-hand-drive, UK-spec Mini. Naturally, he points out some of the idiosyncrasies inherent with a car built under the guise of British Leyland, including some of well known reliability woes, which he says is the car "going British." Mostly, though, he just seems to have a good time with the little hatch.

Take a look at the latest from Petrolicious and this plucky British import.

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The original Mini Cooper still has universal appeal originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lego Mini Cooper coming in August [w/video]

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Lego Mini Cooper

Lego isn't just for kids anymore. A while back, the company cleverly realized that adults liked its connecting blocks as much as kids but wanted a more sophisticated project to take on. It offers a whole set of Expert models, including a wickedly cool Volkswagen Bus from a few years ago. Now, it's taking aim at automotive enthusiasts again with the recently announced classic Mini Cooper set due to go on sale on August 1 for $99.99.

This is a seriously cool Lego model. At nine inches long, five inches wide and four inches tall, the car is certainly compact (as a Mini should be), but it contains 1,077 pieces. It's finished in the classic Mini look with a British Racing Green body with white roof, hood stripes and mirror caps. The doors, hood and trunk all open up, and there's even a little, simulated engine. The interior includes features like a turning steering wheel and movable gearshift and handbrake. In the boot, there is a cute picnic set, and even a spare tire hidden under the floor. If you want to show off your handiwork after it's built, the roof is removable to peer inside.

Expect dads around the world to be unwrapping these when the holidays roll around. Scroll down to watch one of Lego's designers detailing its latest set and read the full release about it, below. The gallery shows the Mini off from all of its blocky angles, as well.

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Lego Mini Cooper coming in August [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How Mini shacked up with John Cooper

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XCAR host with Mini Cooper collection

The late Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, Alec Issignonis to his Internet friends, designed a car that was sold as the Morris Mini-Minor, the Austin Seven and later the Austin Mini. Go to the Mini USA website and check out the models, though, and every one of them is called a Cooper of some sort, e.g., Mini Cooper Paceman or Mini Cooper S Roadster. So who is Cooper?

It's probably obvious that it's the same Cooper we get in "John Cooper Works," those JCW Minis that always make up the top of the line. But many probably don't know that that John Cooper, founder of John Cooper Cars, is the same man who accidentally got the motorsports world to switch to rear-engined race cars and the same Formula One constructor who won two titles in 1959 and 1960 and who fielded drivers like Bruce McLaren and Stirling Moss.

On its way to driving the Mini John Cooper Works GP II, XCAR goes back to the beginning to find out when Alec met John, and how the first Mini Cooper came out in 1961, two years after the first Mini. You can watch the story and the car review in the video below.

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How Mini shacked up with John Cooper originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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