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The original Mini, introduced in 1959, sold 5.3 million units over the course of 41 years. Park all of them end to end, and you'd have a line of Minis that stretch from New York to Singapore. Impressive as those numbers are, they're not the whole story of the significance of the original Mini (first called the Austin Seven and the Morris Mini Minor). Would you judge the significance of the Gutenberg printing press by the number of them that were sold? Consider this: Chevrolet has sold 5.4 million Cavaliers in 20 years. Imagine the Cavalier surviving unchanged for 40 years. Imagine Cavalier clubs, racing Cavaliers, a notably short skirt named after the Cavalier. Imagine a queen knighting the Cavalier's designer. So the Mini has a long cultural history. But even in Britain, a country unusually proud of its past, symbols of a once-glorious empire must give way to modernity. The devotion of the Brits kept alive the Mini, a car considered mechanically outdated 20 years ago. But by the early '80s, only about 5000 Minis were trundling out of showrooms every year. So although devotion to the Mini as an icon of Britishness remained strong, devotion to the Mini-the car-has long since passed.