So many Mini variants, special editions and Mini-based creations have emerged during the past 55 years that it would be next to impossible to comprehensively capture them all.
Instead, we've selected what we consider to be the 55 most interesting or important ones; in among the candidates sit the first Mini, the 1958 ADO15 concept, and the latest third-generation BMW Mini. The classic Mini Cooper S features too, if the car's motorsport and rallying pedigree is what really draws you to the diminutive front-drive hatchback.
Take a look through the picture gallery and then tell us which you regard as the most important Mini ever.
To leave your views, all you need to do register to use our commenting facility, and post in the comments section below.
You can read the latest first drive of the all-new Mini here.
This week's Autocar magazine also features a 25-page Mini special, and is available from newsagents or by download.
Join the debate
Add your comment
For me there are too many to
1. Original 1959 Morris Mini-Minor / Austin Se7en (it was the car that started it all so has to be number 1 really)
2. Morris / Austin Mini Cooper 'S'
3. MINI Cooper S with John Cooper Works GP Kit (R53)
4. Mini ACV30
5. Austin Mini ERA Turbo
Out of 3 Minis owned in the 60s
Was a long time companion, and still remember every mile of a trip to Monaco in 1973.
Also owned 2 tuned Minis - An Oselli Mk II and a Taurus Tuned Minivan.
Another for the original
However I still have a soft spot for the Riley Elf which I occasionally borrowed from a friend of my mother when at university - particularly as it was the only car in which I could watch the road through the floor as well as the windows!