14 Jul
2011
14 Jul
'11
4:21 a.m.
>The "real" car is called the Cooper Mini.
The "fake" car is called the
> Mini Cooper.:) (I_think_)
Is it? I am sure we had a car over here called a
'Mini Cooper' that was
based on the original Mini.
-tony
Mini Cooper was derived from the original Mini by John Cooper and Alec Issigonis and first
appeared in 1961. The BMW Mini also exists in a Mini Cooper version, tuned by John
Cooper's company, now owned by BMW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Cooper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cooper_Works
/Jonas