2019 marked the Mini s 60th anniversary. Watch the original meet the modern successor.
To some people the “new” Mini will never be a replacement for the original, but here’s the thing: it’s not that “new” anymore. In fact the BMW Mini is celebrating its 20th birthday this month! That’s right, while the original celebrated its 60th back in 2019, the modern Mini is 20 (that’s the benchmark to be considered a classic car by a lot of insurance companies, by the way), with the BMW Group’s UK manufacturing plants in Oxford and Swindon celebrating two decades of building Minis, with production beginning for body panels in early 2001 in Swindon and the first new Mini rolling off the line in Oxford on the 26th April that same year.