‘it’s like a little jack russell bombing around’

How was it that the Mini became ‘cool’ during the Swinging Sixties? We investigate by attempting to separate fact from fiction

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

A pair of UK-based enthusiasts has stumbled across a remarkable haul of British classics in Italy. The cars had been in the showroom of a local Austin Rover dealership that closed down during the earl

As electrification becomes ever more widespread, increasingly our Future classic candidates are last-of-the-line models, and this madcap John Cooper Works version of the fourth-generation BMW MINI cou

Last week’s motorsport fun (I ran Autocar’s electric Renault 5 in a Cornwall sprint) sent me into one of those urgent moods of car desire that stay with you after you’ve had a really good time. Sprint

It’s a quarter of a century since the last Issigonis-shape Mini was built, ending the run of Britain’s most enduring people’s car. We mark 25 years with an alphabetical trawl of Mini facts and figures