Mini Clubman - The Mini Impersonator?

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Much like the BMC 9X prototype I had covered before, the late 1960s and early 1970s saw a slew of potential designs created with the intention of replacing the legendary original Mini of 1959, but while the BMC 9X was an external project carried out by Mini designer Sir Alec Issigonis, the Mini Clubman was British Leyland's own in-house attempt to supersede the Mini with a new style, improved dimensions, and the promise of a hatchback, only for corporate turbulence during the merger of BMC and the Leyland Group to form British Leyland, together with a general disinterest by the management, seeing the resultant Clubman become merely a less aerodynamic facelift that struggled to find appeal, and would end its days after 11 years in production as the often forgotten Mini pretender.

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