Arts: The Cultural Significance of...;The Mini - How a small car hit the big time It symbolised Sixties Britain - liberating, classless, an icon of swinging modernity. Can its new German reincarnation ever hope to revive such careless rapture, asks Matthew Sweet

The Independent - London | May 19, 2001| | Copyright

At the website for the brand, spanking new, revamped Mini Cooper, (www.mini.com) an animation window shows a tightly-focused image of the car's smooth, sleeky surfaces, but denies you a view of the top or the wheels. If you were presented with this on an edition of Ask the Family, you'd believe that this week's everyday object photographed from an unusual angle was something impossibly high- tech and German: some muscular exercise in Vorsprung durch Technik. And you'd be right. The relaunched, re-designed Mini - a car which was once such a powerful symbol of British economic optimism that it ...

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