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Alec Issigonis, English car designer, designed the Mini (born 1906)

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Alec Issigonis

British car designer

Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of the 20th century in 1999.
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Mini

British car model from 1959 to 2000

The Mini is a very small two-door, four-seat car, produced for four decades over a single generation, with many names and variants, by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors British Leyland and the Rover Group, and finally (briefly) under BMW ownership. Minis…
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October 2

Day of the year

October 2 is the 275th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 90 days remain until the end of the year.
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