Famous coachbuilding name returns with a new spin on mini luxury

In the Swinging Sixties, the Mini was huge; as a fashion and personal statement by women who had been liberated from centuries of sexual oppression by the pill and as an automobile representing the second coming of the British automotive industry. Forty years ago, London coachbuilder Harold Radford made the original Mini a celebrity icon with his hand-crafted Radford Mini de Ville offering a distinctly up-market version of the diminutive machine - all four of the Beatles had Radford Minis, and Peter Sellers had a personal Radford Mini which was used in the film "The Pink Panther", buying a second one for Britt Ekland. Now Harold Radford Coachbuilders (London) is applying its coachbuilding skills and individual expression to the BMW Mini to create a stunning 265bhp, GBP30,000 version of the Mini Cooper S.

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