Ace of Clubmans Ace of Clubmans ; Bmw's New Mini Estate Recaptures the Spirit of the Sixties ... And

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Has there ever been a car more in tune with the zeitgeist than the Sixties Mini? Think Carnaby Street, think flower power, think Sir Alec Issigonis's cute little world-beater that every trendy young Mary Quant or David Bailey wannabe yearned to be seen in.

That iconic status extended to the Mini estates the mock-Tudor beamed Traveller and its younger cousin, the Clubman, whose charms were admittedly somewhat tarnished by a hideously tacky fakewood strip that ran the length of the fuselage on one model (a weak Middle England attempt to make the car look like a proper Californian 'woodie').

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Ace of Clubmans Ace of Clubmans ; Bmw's New Mini Estate Recaptures the Spirit of the Sixties ... And

Nearly 40 years on and there's a new Clubman on the block, and this time, mercifully, the designers have avoided any dreadful fashion crimes. The range, now built by BMW, starts at 14,235 for the Cooper and there's a diesel for 15,400. At the media launch in ...

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