a nearly forgotten brand (Mini), well past its glory years and left with little more than a cult following, is reborn in 2002.

Jeff

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: BMW is probably even more clearcut than Apple - was it the iPod
: alone, or with iMac too etc? If you look up BMW Neue Klasse, it
: will say that range saved BMW but to be specific it was the 1500
: then 1800 - without those 2 specific models BMW wouldn't exist
: as an independent today, if it existed at all. Audi was more
: gradual, you can look at the point 80 and 100 became A4 and A6
: though arguably they were on the up before then. Still an
: interesting case, as the good times before were for Auto Union
: rather than the separate Audi.