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How BMW Kept the MINI Alive — And Why it Actually Worked

Thursday, April 23, 2026Horatiu BoeriuView original
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When the first modern MINI rolled off the line at Plant Oxford on April 26, 2001, nobody knew quite what to make of it. BMW had bought the wreckage of Rover six years earlier, inherited...

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