The Mini: The Making of a Modern Icon - Rilegato

Laban, Brian

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ISBN 10: 0007152752 ISBN 13: 9780007152759

Casa editrice: Collins, 2003

Riassunto

More than just a car, the Mini is the most fun-filled and spectacularly successful British car ever built
- and now it's back with a new design for the 21st century. ‘The Mini: the Making of a Modern Icon' celebrates 50 momentous years of a British design classic, and looks to the future with a special section on the relaunched Mini.

‘The Mini’ tells the complete story of this most legendary of cars: the unlikely genius who designed it; the Goon who first made it popular; the Lords and Ladies, call-girls and rock stars, swingers and hippies who drove it – at the same time taking a revealing look at Britain’s last half century.

Not surprisingly, the car that set London swinging and at the same time wowed the rally driving circuit, attracted a legion of famous fans from the entertainment and motor racing worlds – and the book features numerous original photographs and interviews with people such as Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Sterling Moss, Jamie Blandford, Jeremy Clarkson, Damon Hill, Britt Ekland, Twiggy, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

But behind the glitz and glamour of the Mini as an icon was the struggle to make money and a sad decline that exemplified the British motor industry. The book examines the troubled history of the company that made it, the struggles between workers and management, and their role in the decline of the original Mini – and now the miraculous rebirth of an all-new Mini.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Brian Laban has been a writer for 25 years, and a Mini fan for even longer. He has written for nearly all the major motoring magazines in both the UK and across Europe, and has written 20 motoring books. In 1991 he won the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Pierre Dreyfus Award for the most outstanding journalistic effort of the year.

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To many thousands of people around the world the Mini is a way of life. Since it first rolled off the production line in August 1959, the car remained essentially the same for 40 years while revolutionising the motor industry, inspiring artist, starring in films and winning numerous racing trophies. When change did eventually come with BMW’s new Mini, the style of the original car mixed with the up-to-date technology proved a winning combination that has continued to thrill Mini fans everywhere. This book is a celebration of the car in all its glory. Broken into sections dealing with Size -- why no other ‘small’ car comes close; Class -- how it was eagerly adopted by Lords and call-girls; Sex - the Swinging Sixties would have merely swayed without it; Speed -- how it ate Jags for tea; Money -- it never made any; Love -- why it won the heart of millions; Faith -- how BMW came to the rescue; and Rebirth -- how it came back to life, it is illustrated throughout using rare and classic images from the Mini’s history.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Collins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0007152752
• ISBN 13: 9780007152759
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia