MINI 50 Years - Hardcover

Golding, Rob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760326274 ISBN 13: 9780760326275

Verlag: Motorbooks, 2007

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It's not the size that matters, Austin Powers tells his son as they look over the MINI, "but how you use it." And the diminutive MINI has made it big -- from the beginning. This book tells the full story of the iconic car from its initial launch in the late 1950s through its current super-hip BMW-built incarnation -- right up to the revised version set for release in 2006. Packaged in a clever "under the hood" flap with magnetic clasp (the front flap opens to show the engine), MINI 50 Years captures both the sense of fun and style that have made Mini one of the most popular compacts in the history of the automotive industry.

The threads that tie together the original MINI and today's are numerous and fascinating, and as interesting as the differences that set the two cars apart. MINI 50 Years follows them all. From the swingin’ star of movies—immortalized in the original film The Italian Job in 1961 and again in the 2003 remake, as well as in The Bourne Identity—to the racing champ and now the 21st-century hipster vehicle of choice, Minis are small, fun, memorable, and cool. Author and mini expert Rob Golding treats readers to every thrill that marks the MINI.

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Rob Golding has become the recognized Mini biographer, having written Mini, Mini After 25 Years, Mini: Thirty Years On, and Mini: Thirty-Five Years On. He has tracked the car’s fifty years of development while working as a motoring and motorsports writer, as a business journalist, and as an auto industry analyst. For his latest book on the subject, he was given unrivaled access to the people who made the story. This time, there is the intrigue of the battles between MG Rover and BMW and the final separation of the two firms before launch of the British-built but German-designed MINI.

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From swingin sixties darling to racing champ to twenty-first-century hipster transport, the diminutive Mini has made it big from the first. A favorite among patient, nostalgic drivers and now among new, performance-minded drivers, Mini and MINI seamlessly combine economy and style. With a smart book design as playful as the car that inspired it, MINI 50 Years tells the full story of the iconic car, from its initial launch in the late 1950s through its current superhip BMW-built incarnation right up to the revised version released in late 2006. The threads that tie together the original Mini and today s are numerous and fascinating almost as interesting as the differences that set the two cars apart and MINI 50 Years follows them all.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Motorbooks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0760326274
• ISBN 13: 9780760326275
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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