The Mini eMastered
A non-BMW-made electric Mini that feels like the 60s icon, without all the technical flaws
When people around the world buy a Mini, a part of them probably feels it’s a rather stylish, Anglophile statement. After all, Minis were one of the emblems of the Swinging London of the 1960s, when the Beatles, Twiggy, Mick Jagger, and so forth would scoot around Carnaby Street and the Kings Road in the little cars. Three souped-up Mini Coopers—the sports version of the Mini—were co-stars of the 1969 British heist movie The Italian Job, alongside Michael Caine and Noël Coward.
The boxy, British-designed-and-built Mini—10 feet long, with a tiny wheel at each corner—was a massive seller between 1959 and 2000. It was even a niche seller in the U.S. until 1967, when tighter safety standards made it impractical to import.
