Talk:Mini (Mark I)

Early Edit History

• The early edit history for this article can be found at Mark1 Mini production changes see [1].

Your help requested

The Mini article is in the Wikipedia:Peer review process - perhaps heading towards Featured Article status. I would greatly appreciate experts on MkI Minis taking a look at it. (If you find a problem, please either fix it or post your concerns on the Talk:Mini page. TIA SteveBaker 20:50, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Wrong image

Someone has removed the rather good picture that headed up this entry of a 'normal' Mini and substituted a picture of a Riley Elf that suffers from too much reflection. They have also described the Riley Elf as a Mini Cooper. Curiouser and curiouser.

If the Riley Elf was sold in North America and badged as a Mini Cooper, that would be interesting information. Please may we have a para in the text to explain what BMC's marketing department got up to here? We do know that BMC's marketing department got up to some strange things. If its simply an old fashioned mistake, does anyone mind if we put back a better picture of a more 'normal Mini Mk I'? Doesn't have to be the one that was there before. I think the one that was there before is quite a good one, but there are several quite good ones in Commons.

I assume most people reading this are car nuts/nerds so know what I'm banging on about. For the rest of you, the Riley Elf and it's Wolseley Hornet quasi-Siblings were like 'normal' Minis but with a rather odd trunk / boot sticking out at the back. They had incongruous timber work on the facia / dashboard, as far as I remember. Oh yes, they also had Riley (or Wolseley) written on them.

(There may well be a place for a picture of a Riley Elf further down in the article - somewhere near a para explaining what it was / did, and this may be the best Elf image we have. It was never a big seller.)

Regards Charles01 (talk) 12:45, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

PS For anyone interested (that's both of us...) here's a picture of a Riley Elf from approximately the other end. Could almost be the same car, given that (from the shape of it) the license plate holder looks North American (or Australian) rather than anything to be found in Europe. Also a white light pointing backwards would get you arrested in Europe. Regards Charles01 (talk) 12:53, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Unless it's configured as a reversing light! ;-)

Seriously, though, even if this car was ever sold as a Mini Cooper in North America, it's a terrible image to have in the lead infobox, since it was never a Mini by name in its home market. I'm interested to know about its NA marketing, but a normal Mini image should definitely go in the article's infobox. – Kieran T ^(talk) 13:05, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Hatchback?

In the sidebar, listed under body styles, a Hatchback is listed. Except for a few rare 3rd party conversions made for such clients as Ringo Starr and Peter sellers, I'm pretty sure the mini's rear window was fixed.D.C.Rigate (talk) 13:42, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

ADO15 means Amalgamated Drawing Office 15

I think that this is reliable and so I have changed the explanation in this article. This is my source: Model ADO codes. Eddaido (talk) 12:31, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Does the Mk1 need its own article?

I'm not sure why the Mini Mk1 needs its own article/page, when the main Mini article/page covers this and the rest of the iterations of the car and feels in some ways duplicated. Not sure about the relevance of part numbers has to do with Mk1 Minis as I'm sure many other BMC cars and products would have had similar dating codes.

I think there is scope that it could be merged with the main page, especially information about Mk1 production changes. BRail Network Group Ltd (talk) 19:10, 2 January 2023 (UTC)