Ten years of Mini Cooper

It's funny to recall that the modern Mini we all know and love was actually gifted to us out of political and economic recrimination a decade-and-a-half ago. In 1994, BMW's takeover of the British Rover Group was something akin to a conquest of the mid-Atlantic island. BMW held control for six years and in that time chopped the company up into the three parts. Keeping all it needed for new projects such as the X5, BMW sold Land Rover to Ford and gave away a destitute Rover/MG back to its previous management for a tenner (no really, £10 was paid for Rover/MG).