Mini 40 & Mini Cooper 40th edition Page - now re-launched, the Mini 40 Register Website http://mini40register.co.uk !!

During 1999 to celebrate the Mini's 40th year of production, a series of limited edition Minis were produced under the Mini 40 name. There were 800 such cars produced, confirmed 250 for the UK market, plus there are believed to be 150 for the Japanese Domestic Market (JDM cars) and 400 left hand drive European export market cars.

The UK cars were officially numbered from 1 to 250 when built and came with a presentation case and a certificate with the unique number stated. There were 150 made in Mulberry Red, 50 in Old English White and 50 in Island Blue.

These cars all came with the sports pack flared wheel arches and 13" sports alloys and with either Red or Dark Blue leather trim, polished alloy door furniture and turned-alloy fascia with a Mini 40 branded instrument cluster.

The JDM cars were also produced in the same three colours as the UK range, but these came with 12" Alloys and were not Sports Pack fitted. It is believed around 150 were made, but this is yet to be confirmed and the breakdown of colours made in numbers is also not known at this time. As usual, the JDM cars were equipped with air-conditioning and were available in manual or automatic transmission with the Single Point Injection being retained but mated to an MPi engine block and other ancillaries as per other MPi era JDM cars.

The left hand drive export models for Europe came in a wider range of colours, Black, Platinum Silver for non-sunroof fitted cars, or British Racing Green or Tahiti Blue for the 'Open' edition which came with the full length canvas sunroof. It it believed around 400 of these were produced, some in Sports Pack trim and others not - there appear to be some Mulberry Red 12" wheel non-sports pack cars possibly sold in Italy only. Numbers of colours produced and specific variations are still not fully known at this time.

Later in 1999, a further model was built for the JDM market called the Mini Cooper 40th Anniversary edition, and this came in red or Brooklands Green colours with a White roof and can be identified by VIN number as a Cooper Variant (SAXXNN) rather than a Mini variant for all the other 40's (SAXXNW)

A register of these cars was started a few years ago by Chas Wright, but he has recently handed over the data to us to carry on with the building up of information and knowledge on these cars.

We have now re-launched the Mini 40 Register Website http://mini40register.co.uk which has the latest information of the register.

We also plan to have a few Mini 40 club stands at some events. Please join the Website linked above and also the Mini 40 Facebook group to keep up to date on developments. https://www.facebook.com/groups/727679821275995