Mini Moke - the anti-off-road vehicle with small car genes
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Summary
Between 1964 and 1993, almost 50,000 Mini Moke vehicles were built, rustic leisure cars with little weather protection and dimensions and performance typical of small cars. The car, once designed as a military vehicle, is still popular today and now fetches prices that are more than ten times the original price. This report describes the varied history of the British anti-terrain vehicle and shows a vehicle from 1971 in many photos.
This article contains the following chapters
- Developed in parallel with the Mini
- Unsuitable for the military
- Quite conspicuous
- Inexpensive and still not a bestseller
- Mr. Cool
- As a long-distance runner in Australia
- Third life in Portugal
- Increasingly valuable
- Further information
Estimated reading time: 6min
Preview (beginning of the article)
If you look at it from the front, it is reminiscent of the Willys Jeep, from the side there are similarities to a buggy, but in fact there were hardly any cars with which the Mini M oke could really be compared. Perhaps the Citroën Méhari, the VW Type 181 or the Renault Rodeo were the closest competitors, but they all came onto the market later than the Mini Moke, which made its first official appearance in 1964. At that time, however, the Mini Moke could already look back on a longer history, as its development had already begun in the late 1950s. Its creator was Alec Issigonis, who was certainly no stranger. He had thought that the constantly growing military budgets should not just be left to competitors such as Land Rover and decided to design an off-road vehicle for army use based on the emerging Mini ( Austin Seven).
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