Mini is 50: a Mini celebration by CAR writers and readers

By Tim Pollard

Motoring Issues

13 October 2009 12:45

Mini is 50 this year and we've published a 33-page Mini special in the new November issue of CAR Magazine – packed with memories, drives and analysis of and with the cars and people that made Mini great. 

Here we've asked some of CAR's top writers to remember their personal highlights from the past five decades. Gavin Green explains why he recently drove across Australia in a modern Mini, while Anthony ffrench-Constant recalls why crashing a classic Mini caused him to start a lifelong nicotine habit. Click on the links below for our new Mini stories – and don't forget we want YOUR Mini memories too. We'll be publishing the best right here, so remember to give to click on Upload stories, photos or videos direct to the site at the foot of this page to sumbit your Mini stories and photos.

CAR WRITERS' MINI STORIES

• Ben Barry
Revisits the Monte Carlo with a rally legend
• Chris Chilton
Picks his favourite Mini moments
• Anthony ffrench-Constant
Popping his 100mph cherry and crashing a Mini
• Gavin Green
Story behind Gavin's trans-Australian Mini road trip
• Nick Trott
Reveals six old Minis on his car CV
• Ben Whitworth
Learning to drive in a Mini in Africa
• Ben Whitworth
Fails his driving test in a Mini

CAR ONLINE READER STORIES

By Tim Pollard