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Ah I misunderstood. But even the Mk1 New Mini wasn't a Rover design 'through and through' - it wasn't really a Rover design at all. Rover developed some concepts (Evolution, Revolution, Spiritual) in the mid-late 90s but Rover design and engineering became less and less prevalent until eventually the whole project was taken over by BMW in the late 90s - the whole concept was by BMW, the styling was by Frank Stephenson at BMW, and the componentry was from BMW. The total sum of the British efforts in that car is the packaging of German components within a German bodyshell.