What year is the mini1 car?

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MINI was originally designed by Alec Issigonis of the British Motor Corporation (BMC). The design process began in 1957, and the world's first MINI was born on August 26, 1959. After several ownership changes, MINI was finally acquired by the BMW Group in 1994 and has continued to this day. Starting in 2000, BMW announced the launch of MINI's successor models. Since then, the MINI lineup has had three fixed models: Mini One, Mini Cooper, and Mini Cooper S. In 2000, the old Mini ceased production, and the new owner of the Mini brand, BMW, announced the launch of Mini's successor models, branding the new cars as MINI (all in uppercase letters). A mini car refers to a vehicle with extremely small interior capacity, defined variously as "less than 3 meters" and "displacement less than 2400 mL." A typical mini car has only one driver's seat and one passenger seat. Many mini cars have only four wheels.