Fully automatic in the mid-range - Hillman Super Minx with Easy Drive
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Summary
The Hillman Super Minx is an exotic model in our part of the world. It was already so in the early sixties, despite attractive prices (especially in Austria) and the interesting automatic called "Easydrive". This article reproduces the original wording of the 'hobby' test report from 1962 and is illustrated with historical archive images as well as two rare sales brochures - one saloon, one convertible.
This article contains the following chapters
- Designed for tough use
- Typically British?
- One engine for six cars
- Inexpensive to cheap, depending on the country
- Easidrive = easy to drive
- Simple functional principle
- Reliable, comfortable mid-range car
- Sins in terms of aerodynamics?
- Drum brakes only
- Not enough trunk space
- With potential for improvement
- Results of the test drive
Estimated reading time: 6min
Preview (beginning of the article)
If the dictionary is to be believed, the English primarily understand 'minx' to mean a 'cheeky girl' or a 'rascal'. However, as the dictionary doesn't always tell us, when the English talk about 'Minx', they usually mean a car that is as widespread on the island as the Opel Rekord is in other European countries. This 'cheeky' vehicle with the name 'Minx' was created 34 years ago when the brothers William and Reginald Rootes took over the Hillman and Humber factories, creating the nucleus of today's Rootes Group in the Coventry area. So in 1928, William Rootes called four of the company's busiest workers into the design department and seated them in two rows of chairs. The Minx was designed around these chairs. When the first car was finished, the factory blacksmith sat down in the test car and, after a few driving lessons, set off on a 16,000 kilometer journey by hook or by crook, without any practice in driving.
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