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The ERA Mini Turbo is a modified Mini city car that was produced by English Racing Automobiles under the ERA brand name from 1989 to 1991 at Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England. The fastest-ever version of the original Mini to be sold through official dealers, it has been described as "the spiritual successor to the Cooper and the 1275 GT".
Based on: Mini Cooper; Engine: 1,275 cc single point fuel injection. The engine number on the UK cars is prefixed with 12A2EJ66 and the Japanese cars were prefixed with 12A2EJ34. These engine prefixes were shared with the 1994 Monte Carlo LE and is one of the key identifiers of a genuine Cooper 35 LE. Exterior colour:
1965 Broadspeed GT Mini SCAMP invented by Robert Mandry William Towns designed Microdot City Car project GTM mid-engined car, uses Mini front sub frames front and rear. The Midas. A development of the Mini Marcos available as either a kit or fully assembled car. The Hustler 4. 356 SPORTS LIMITED Sprint Convertible, Sprint Coupe; ABC Tricar [2]: 6
The largest A-series engine displaced 1.3 L; 77.8 cu in (1,275 cc). It used the 70.6 mm (2.78 in) bore from the Mini Cooper S versions but the 81.4 mm (3.20 in) stroke from the plain Mini Cooper. It was produced from 1964 until 1980, when it was replaced by an A-Plus version. The bore size was around the maximum possible in the block, with very ...
The Mini (developed as ADO15) is a small, two-door, four-seat car produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors, from 1959 until 2000. Minus a brief hiatus, original Minis were built for four decades and sold during five, from the last year of the 1950s into the last year of the 20th century, over a single generation, as fastbacks, estates, and convertibles.
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Issigonis' friend John Cooper, owner of the Cooper Car Company and Formula One Manufacturers Champion in 1959 and 1960, saw the potential of the little car, and after some experimentation and testing, the two men collaborated to create a nimble, economical, and inexpensive car. The Austin Mini Cooper and Morris Mini Cooper debuted in September ...
It was launched in 1980 as the Austin Mini Metro (styled AUSTIN miniMETRO). The Mini Metro was intended to complement and eventually replace the original BMC Mini, and was developed under the codename LC8. The MG version of the Metro was named "Car of The Year" 1983 by What Car? magazine, and later once more, as the Rover Metro, in 1991.