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We bring the biggest MINI ever face to face with the car that started it all- the 1959 Morris Mini Minor

Mini by name, definitely not mini by nature! The Countryman will be the fourth model to join the range when it steamrollers into showrooms in September, but with four-wheel drive and offroader dimensions to match, is it still a MINI? We brought it face to face with the original 1959 Morris Mini Minor to find out.

Before the new BMW-engineered hatchback first showed its face in 2001, we were sceptical about whether it could live up to the legend of the Alec Issigonis-designed original. But the moment we got our hands on one it was clear that BMW had done a fantastic job of transferring the DNA.