BMC Mini
[edit] BMC abroad
In the 1950s and the 1960s, BMC set-up twenty-one plants overseas, some as subsidiaries, and some as joint ventures, to assemble their vehicles.
The original Fiat Cinquecento (or Bambino) from 1957 was the Italian equivalent of the BMC Mini, which became the best-selling small car in Britain in the 1960s and early '70s.
Ford claimed the new model, also the first British Ford to be fitted with electric windscreen wipers instead of the quirky vacuum wipers, was 'the world's most exciting light car' despite the simultaneous launch of the new front-wheel driven BMC Mini.
The styling of the car, like that of the Volkswagen New Beetle, is a retro design that is deliberately reminiscent of the original BMC Mini with contrasting roof colours, optional bonnet stripes, ...
 See also: Volkswagen Beetle, BMC, Volkswagen, Ford
  
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