Classic MINI Today we will talk about the best selling British car of all time YES we are talking about MINI. We all are familiar with this name as it hold's a nostalgic history. Austin mini The vintage mini is a small but reliable 2 door car with 4 people seating capacity. It was launched and produced by British Motor Corporation BMC in 1959 and remained in production till 2000. Story The story behind MINI lead us back to 1956 when SUEZ Crises took place and Petrol was once again became rationed in UK. Due to petrol crises the sale of big gas guzzlers dropped and market of German bubble cars boomed even in UK where imported cars where rarely seen. Many small cars were catching the market. This was the time when Autocratic Head of BMC Leonard Lord gave the idea of a proper miniature car for the country. Sir Alec Issigonis (Designer of Morris Minor) was given this task of producing a small 2 door family car. He was a brilliant car designer as he dived into the task of ...
Story When Adolf Hitler became the dictator of Germany he wanted to build a low priced compact car which can be purchased by every citizen of his country and which can travel on his country's newly builded roads so he gave Ferdinand Porsche this task to produce the people's car. He produced several prototype models of the vintage beetle. The original beetle rolled of the production line in 1935 and soon became one of the most selling , affordable and low maintenance compact car on the road. 1935 VW beetle Although it's designed was ready in 1930's but due to world war II they had to wait till 1940's to began production of civilian beetle's. The company internally designated the car as Volkswagen Type 1 but in the market it was known as Volkswagen which means people's car. In Germany it was known by the name "Kafer" which means beetle. In France it took the name "Coccinelle" meaning lady Bug. Soon its sales increased and the company...