Product Description

The Mini, the car of the 20th Century and still in motorsport in 1997, 35 years after its 1st event. This book sets out to complete the untold recent history of the mighty "works Mini" in international motorsport. How the Mini came to be in Monte Carlo and at the famous Nurburgring battling with the giant teams such as Fiat and Citroen. Of how different manufacturers where building "works" cars on either side of Birmingham but not knowing the other existed. It tells the story of cars developed from 1994 up to the last group A cars of 1997, with fuel injection and six speed sequential gearboxes. The book also covers Rover's plan to go around the world competing in various rounds of the world rally championship. It's all here, copies of Rover internal documents plus many unseen photos that Rover would not want you to see, if they were still around. With many unseen photos of the car's development, copies of Rover's internal documents, copy pages from the road books of top rallies, all of this in color this book truly brings this previously untold story to life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #327113 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Amazing History of the Mini !!
This is a real top quality publication. Very very comprehensive, excellent journalism, properly researched and full of vibrant pictures telling the full story of these classic Mini's throughout the 1990's. The narrative flows with great stories of all those involved, with never before seen pictures of all those characters in the project. The hard cover is even the same colour as the Mini! and this quality shows through with the the many many pages being stitched instead of being glued. A fantastic rivetting read - even if you aren't a rally head or Mini fanatic. Looks great in the bookcase collection. Well done guys for taking time to get this together for us all - thanks!