The state of the MINI world, as written by the London Sunday Times:

It is easy to forget Mini when wallowing in the gloom surrounding the demise of Rover. Yet Mini was born out of the same business when BMW owned both brands. The Germans were smart enough to realise that Mini had a future and that Rover also had one – in the remainders bin of the motor industry. BMW kept on the Rover factory at Oxford, dumped the rest on the infamous Phoenix Four and ran away with arguably the best British motoring brand in the world.

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[ Take a Mini ride on the wild side ] The London Sunday Times