It was only the success of the highly popular 1957 Fiat 500, 1959 Austin 7, and 1959 Morris Mini Minor economy cars ... Power came from a 1.9-liter four-cylinder engine producing 45 horsepower.

Capping a three-year period which has seen BMC score a series of truly dramatic engineering and marketing breakthroughs with cars like the Mini-Minor ... the six-cylinder engine replaced the ...