the last mini cooper s was made on 4 october 2000.
the last mini cooper s was made on 4 october 2000.
when was the last mini cooper s made?
4 october 2000
by march 2000, rover was still suffering massive losses, and bmw decided to dispose of most of the companies. the sell-off was completed in may that year. mg and rover went to phoenix, a new british consortium; and land rover was sold to ford motor company. bmw retained the mini name and the planned new model, granting rover temporary rights to the brand and allowing it to manufacture and sell the run-out model of the old mini. by april 2000, the range consisted of four versions: the mini classic seven, the mini classic cooper, the mini classic cooper sport and—for overseas european markets—the mini knightsbridge. the last mini (a red cooper sport) was built on 4 october 2000 and presented to the british motor industry heritage trust in december of that year. a total of 5,387,862 cars had been manufactured, nearly 1.6million of which were sold in britain, although the majority of these were sold at least 20 years before the mini's demise, meaning that the majority of those sold had been scrapped before the end of the original mini's production life.
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section::::mini cooper and cooper s: 1961–1971; 1990–2000.









































issigonis' friend john cooper, owner of the cooper car company and designer and builder of formula one and rally cars, saw the potential of the mini for competition. issigonis was initially reluctant to see the mini in the role of a performance car, but after john cooper appealed to bmc management, the two men collaborated to create the mini cooper. the austin mini cooper and morris mini cooper debuted in september 1961.
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