{"id":94172,"date":"2017-11-24T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-06T21:15:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T21:15:20","slug":"history-of-mini-car-mini-cooper-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/24\/history-of-mini-car-mini-cooper-and\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORY OF MINI CAR, MINI COOPER AND COOPER S (1961\u20132000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h1 style=\"color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;\"><\/h1>\n<div style=\"color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xhLwvqyE7os\/S-FvvfccovI\/AAAAAAAAAXA\/nKqjh4J37oY\/s1600\/image42623_b.jpg\" style=\"color: #ffa868; outline: none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"294\" alt=\"Mini Cooper Classic Cars\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467774284289843954\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/image42623_b.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-94173\" style=\"background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(89, 88, 88); cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 294px; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 6px; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a>Picture Of&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mini Cooper Classic Cars<\/span><\/div>\n<p><br style=\"color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Issigonis<\/span>\u2018 friend&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">John Cooper<\/span>, owner of the&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Cooper Car Company<\/span>&nbsp;and designer and builder of Formula One and rally cars, saw the potential of the&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mini<\/span>&nbsp;for competition.&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Issigonis<\/span>&nbsp;was initially reluctant to see the&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mini<\/span>&nbsp;in the role of a performance car, but after&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">John Cooper<\/span>&nbsp;appealed to&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BMC<\/span>&nbsp;management, the two men collaborated to create the&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mini Cooper<\/span>, a nimble, economical and inexpensive car. The&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Austin Mini Cooper<\/span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Morris Mini Cooper<\/span>&nbsp;debuted in 1961.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xhLwvqyE7os\/S-FvXJtFYJI\/AAAAAAAAAW4\/GYGcEfo8MXc\/s1600\/2008-mini-cooper-s-john-cooper-works-tuning-kit-front-angle-view-588x441+%281%29.jpg\" style=\"color: #ffa868; outline: none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Mini-Cooper Classic Cars\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467773866137182354\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2008-mini-cooper-s-john-cooper-works-tuning-kit-front-angle-view-588x4411-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-94174\" style=\"background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(89, 88, 88); cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 6px; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a>Picture Of&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mini Cooper Classic Cars<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The original 848 cc engine from the&nbsp;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Morris Mini-Minor<\/span>&nbsp;was increased to 997 cc, boosting power from 34 bhp to 55 bhp (25 to 41 kW).The car featured a racing-tuned engine, twin SU carburettors, a closer-ratio gearbox and front disc brakes, uncommon at the time in a small car. One thousand units of this version were commissioned by management, intended for and designed to meet the homologation rules of Group 2 rally racing. The 997 cc engine was replaced by a shorter stroke 998 cc unit in 1964.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture Of&nbsp;Mini Cooper Classic Cars Issigonis\u2018 friend&nbsp;John Cooper, owner of the&nbsp;Cooper Car Company&nbsp;and designer and builder of Formula One and rally cars, saw the potential of the&nbsp;Mini&nbsp;for competition.&nbsp;Issigonis&nbsp;was initially reluctant to see the&nbsp;Mini&nbsp;in the role of a performance car, but after&nbsp;John Cooper&nbsp;appealed to&nbsp;BMC&nbsp;management, the two men collaborated to create the&nbsp;Mini Cooper, a nimble, economical and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}