The 小型の Cooper is the most iconic British-built car of all time, 調査する shows - but did your favourite make the 最高の，を越す 40 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）?
- A 大多数 of 回答者／被告s 認める seeing their car as a part of the family
- But it was the Cooper we feel the most love for since its 1969 film 外見
The 小型の Cooper has been 投票（する）d the most iconic British-built car of all time, によれば a new 調査する of 運転者s.
The 投票 of 2,000 car aficionados 設立する that a third of Brits (27 per cent) feel affection に向かって the small モーター, （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing even the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost (23 per cent) and James 社債's Aston ツバメ DB5 (22 per cent) to the 最高の，を越す 位置／汚点／見つけ出す.
While Jaguar （機の）カム out on 最高の，を越す for Britain's favourite 製造業者, the classic 小型の - now celebrating its 65th birthday - 固く結び付けるd its position as a 全世界の icon with its famed 外見 in The Italian 職業 (1969).
By 1999, the 小型の was 投票（する）d the second-most 影響力のある car of the 20th century - after Henry Ford's Model T - and remains a 主要な支え in popular culture, featuring in The Italian 職業's 2003 reboot and 奮起させるing 世代s of popular 子孫s ever since.
小型のs in the iconic 逃亡 scene of the 1969 film The Italian 職業, starring Michael Caine?
Newer models of the 小型のs were used in the 2003 remake of The Italian 職業?
The 初めの 小型の was designed for British モーター 会社／団体 by Sir Alec Issigonis and first 攻撃する，衝突する the streets in 1959.
But it was in the swinging sixties in Britain that it became an icon, 一連の会議、交渉／完成するing off the １０年間 with an 影響力のある 外見 in The Italian 職業.
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Since then, 小型のs have featured in everything from Mr Bean to the film 見解／翻訳／版s of Robert Ludlum's Bourne franchise and Austin 力／強力にするs.
In a 投票 of 2,000 drivers, 小型の clinched 有利な立場（位置） by a five per cent 利ざや, ahead of the Jaguar E-Type on 22 per cent.?
Jaguars appear in the 最高の，を越す 40 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） seven times making it the nation's favourite car brand, with the XJ6 MK1 (nine per cent), XK120 (nine per cent), MK2 (nine per cent), F-Type (eight per cent), XF (six per cent) and F-Pace (five per cent) all 存在 considered の中で the best British cars ever built.
15 per cent of the 2,000 Brits 調査するd chose the Morris Minor as their favourite British built car, while 15 per cent love the Aston ツバメ DB11.
A その上の 13 per cent went for the Land Rover Defender, によれば the 調査する, （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d to celebrate the 100th episode of TV show Bangers & Cash which 空気／公表するs on Thursday 19 April at 8pm on TV channel Yesterday.
Ford 護衛する MK1 (13 per cent), Ford Cortina MK1 (13 per cent), Aston ツバメ Vanquish (13 per cent), Rolls-Royce 夜明け (12 per cent) and 勝利 Stag (12 per cent) also have places in the nation's heart.
Derek Mathewson from Bangers & Cash said: 'The 研究 shows that there is a lot of affection and love for the 小型の Cooper even now, and rightly so.?
'It was a bit of a 革命の design when it first arrived, and although it 現実に started やめる slowly the fact that it sold 上向きs of 5.3 million and 代表するd the British car 産業 on a 全世界の 規模 for so long is no surprise to me.
'65 years later, the 小型の Cooper is still held in high regard and has proven itself to be a popular choice over the years.
'We've seen a fair few come through the auction on Ba ngers & Cash, some in better 条件 than others, it has to be said, but all of them have at one time been 心にいだくd and come with some 広大な／多数の／重要な personal stories with them.
'We 設立する a rare Cooper S in a shed in our first ever episode and we get a 小型の Mayfair out of a barn in our 100th episode which is a 広大な／多数の／重要な way to 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of our century!'
As a nation we love our cars so much that over half (53 per cent) see their car as part of the family, with the 普通の／平均（する） Brit feeling affection に向かって four cars in their lifetime.
81 per cent think it is normal to love a car like it is part of the family, even going so far as to feel sad (68 per cent) when they've had to get rid of it or 貿易（する） it in.
In fact, almost half (45 per cent) go so far as to 指名する their cars with Baby (eight per cent), 迅速な (seven per cent), Flash (six per cent), Beast (six per cent) and Betty (six per cent) the most popular 指名するs across the country.
84 per cent agree that their car 表明するs their style and personality.
Our love for our four wheels goes so 深い that 57 per cent 収容する／認める they can get jealous of a family member or friends' car, while 61 per cent 内密に 裁判官 people based on their choice of car.
A modern incarnation of the classic 小型の. Pictured: the 生産／産物 line of 小型の Cooper Electrics at the BMW 小型の 工場／植物 in Cowley, Oxford
Carlos Sainz and Alex Haro of Spain compete in their 小型の John Cooper 作品 決起大会／結集させる 加える during the SS4d on day three of the FIA/FIM 決起大会／結集させる （警察の）手入れ，急襲 Portugal 2024 on April 5, 2024
Seven in ten (71 per cent) agree that buying a 乗り物 is as important a 購入（する） as buying a house, with the 普通の／平均（する） Brit taking five months to 検討する，考慮する over, 研究 and decide which make and model they want to get.
Cost (70 per cent), mileage (55 per cent), age of the 乗り物 (51 per cent), 十分な-service history (45 per cent), 保険 (44 per cent), colour (40 per cent) and engine size (39 per cent) are the most important factors when buying a car.
One in five (17 per cent) always look at the number of scratches, while 16 per cent won't even consider buying it if it doesn't have a sat nav.
The nation's love of 小型の's run so 深い that 31 per cent of the 2,000 調査するd said that world famous car chase in 1969 film, The Italian 職業 was their favourite car chase in cinema history.
The police chase in The 急速な／放蕩な and Furious (21 per cent), the tube scene in the 2003 remake of The Italian 職業 (19 per cent) and the iconic race through San Francisco in Bullitt (12 per cent) also get our gears going.
Step 支援する in time with the 小型の: The history of Britain's most iconic car
The 初めの 小型の was the brainchild of Sir Alec Issigonis (pictured). The design broke the mould; tiny in dimensions but spacious enough for four 乗客s, it was 目的（とする）d at the 集まりs to 供給する affordable モーターing at a time when the cost of 運動ing had 増大するd for all
An 早期に sketch of the 小型の by its designer, Sir Alec Issigonis. The 目的（とする） was to produce something light, compact in size but roomy inside for 乗客s
A longitudinal cross section of the 1959 Austin Seven 小型の-Minor shows how?Issigonis managed to squeeze the most 内部の space out of the compact dimensions
On 26 August 1959, the 初めの 小型の was 開始する，打ち上げるd to the world.?
Penned by Sir Alec Issigonis, it's a design that broke the mould; tiny in dimensions but spacious enough for four 乗客s, it was 目的（とする）d at the 集まりs to 供給する affordable モーターing at a time when the cost of 運動ing had 増大するd for all.
It still lives on today - be it under the 所有権 of German 巨大（な）s BMW - in the 形態／調整 of a not-so-dinky retro 範囲 that has seen the 伝統的な three-door hatchback joined by a raft of variants, from the SUV 同国人 to sporty クーデター and Roadster models.
While it might not be the same diminutive 初めの that was built to a 予算, its 延長／続編 does mean we can cast an 注目する，もくろむ 支援する 65 years of almost 無傷の 生産／産物 to 示す what is, without 疑問, Britain's - and arguably the world's - most iconic car.
The 開始する，打ち上げる of the 小型の Austin Seven in 1959
The 小型の was （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d by BMC (British モーター 会社／団体) because of the 燃料 不足 原因（となる）d by the 1959 Suez 危機.
石油 was rationed, prices 急に上がるd and typically large British cars became 即時に いっそう少なく 望ましい.
どこかよそで across Europe, 'miniature' model sales started to にわか景気 as 買い手s looked to downsize their 乗り物s and モーターing costs.?
泡 cars in Germany - like the BMW Isetta and?Messerschmitt KRs - became a big 攻撃する，衝突する while Italians flocked to buy the Fiat 500 when it went on sale in 1957.?
Sir Alec Issigonis with the new Austin 小型の. He was （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d to design the small car by BMC (British モーター 会社／団体) because of the 燃料 不足 原因（となる）d by the 1959 Suez 危機
The first of many: The new Austin 7 (Seven) 存在 実験（する）d for 安定 at the Chobham, Surrey, 証明するing ground skid-pan by designer Alec Issigonis
Alec Issigonis, creator of the British モーター 会社／団体 小型の, 運動ing the 1,000,000th 小型の off the 生産／産物 line at the Austin factory at Longbridge, 近づく Birmingham
The tiny dimensions made it incredibly 平易な to 運動 and park. It's still remembered as one of the best-手渡すing cars of all time
Left: Mr H. Kennerley, of Cheshire, 勝利者 of Daily Mail 小型の car 競争. 権利:?Mrs L. Reynold, of Offerton, Stockport, 勝利者 of Daily Mail 小型の car 競争
Mr Donald Dolan, of Kingstanding, Birmingham, 存在 現在のd with the 重要なs to a new 小型の Minor, which he won in a Daily Mail 競争, by ジーンズ Morton, an ITV announcer
Denise Lilly in a Leyland 小型の - a car won as a prize in 競争 at Ideal Home 展示, 1981
Michael Nesmith of pop group The Monkees, with wife Phyllis Nesmith and his new 小型の モーター car
From the 古記録s: Austin-Rover 小型の 25 委員会 give the special-版 小型の 25 the 解除する-off
Thirty years on: The Rover Group 示すd the third １０年間 of the 小型の with this celebratory picture
BMC 大統領，／社長 Sir Leonard Lord 始める，決める out a design 簡潔な／要約する for the car 製造者 to produce its own small-規模 乗り物, which importantly needed to have box-like 測定s, 申し込む／申し出 ample space and - ーするために keep costs 負かす／撃墜する - use an 存在するing powerplant.?
Issigonis, who had been 草案d in for the 事業／計画（する）,?sketched out a design that was a mere ten feet long, four foot seven and a half インチs wide and became the epitome of 'Tardis' design.
That's because にもかかわらず the puny 外部の dimensions, inside the 初めの 小型の was unfathomably roomy - which?was all 負かす／撃墜する to clever architecture.
The oldest remaining? 小型の, the Austin 小型の 1959 (left) pictured with a 小型の 35 SE outside the Longbridge factory in 1994
支援する 見解（をとる） of a 小型の Cooper S owned by Bruce Reynolds who 操るd The 広大な／多数の／重要な Train 強盗 on 8 August 1963
Footballer Kevin Ball photographed with his first 小型の at his Farnham home in the 1980s
非常に／多数の variants of the classic 小型の were produced, 含むing the Clubman and 同国人 広い地所. They all 保持するd the diminutive 特徴... until BMW took over in the late nineties and began producing new 見解／翻訳／版s in the 早期に 2000s
With the tried and 実験（する）d BMC A-Series four-cylinder, water-冷静な／正味のd engine turned through 90 degrees and 機動力のある transversely, and the use of a monocoque instead of a 伝統的な chassis - with the?中断 and engine gearbox 議会s 存在 carried on sub でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れるs - it had 解放する／自由なd up the 大多数 of the cabin floorplan for 乗客 space.
BMC 心配するd that orders would flood in and so, having previewed a 生産／産物 見解／翻訳／版 of the 乗り物 to the 圧力（をかける） in April 1959, had already 組み立てる／集結するd 7,000 examples for the 公式の／役人 開始する，打ち上げる four months later on August 26.
American actor 遺伝子 Barry -?best remembered for his 主要な 役割s in the films The 原子の City (1952) and The War of The Worlds (1953) 同様に as his 描写 of the 肩書を与える characters in the TV series Bat Masterson and Burke's 法律 - pictured sitting in a 小型の
Former prima ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn, 行う／開催する／段階 指名する of Margaret Evelyn de Arias, pictured with her 小型の
Lord Frederick Windsor, 13-year-old son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, learning to 運動 a 小型の on the Queen's 広い地所, Windsor
Prince Michael of Kent leaving Cambridge Theatre in his 小型の years later
On its introduction it was 申し込む／申し出d under the Austin and Morris 指名するs - as the Seven and 小型の-Minor それぞれ.?
It wasn't until a １０年間 later that 小型の became a marque of its own (though it went 支援する to the Austin 小型の 指名する in 1980).
It was produced at Oxford until 1968 under the 所有権 of BMC before 議会 was moved to Longbridge?近づく Birmingham, where it continued to be built until October 2000 under the guise of British Leyland (1968-1986) and Rover Group (1986-2000).
The 小型の has seen plenty in its 65 years. This 発射 shows a just-衝突，墜落d 小型の on the A6024 on the Derbyshire/Yorkshire 国境
The 影響 of a 小型の left in 逆転する by the owner in a London roof-最高の，を越す car park. The 乗り物 went straight over the 辛勝する／優位, 上陸 15 foot 負かす／撃墜する on 最高の，を越す of another car below in Old Street
An almost fully 潜水するd 小型の during 激しい 天候 in 1983. This picture was taken in Morecambe
John Cooper (pictured) famously transformed the 小型の into a 競争 car. 業績／成果 見解／翻訳／版s of the roadgoing 小型の have carried his 指名する for years
In total, t he classic-形態／調整 小型の went through seven different iterations and 含むd the Traveller, Clubman, 同国人 and 先頭 variants - though all 保持するd the same character, dimensional 決まり文句／製法 and 伝説の design.
Given how responsive it was to 運動 and the 成果／努力s of racing car designer John Cooper, motorsport 業績／成就s also （機の）カム.
Most 著名な of them was the 小型の Cooper S winning the Monte Carlo 決起大会／結集させる in 1964 in the 手渡すs of the late 米，稲 Hopkirk.
The 小型の repeated the feat in Monte Carlo again in 1965 (driven by?Timo M?kinen) and 1967 (Rauno Aaltonen) - and was controversially disqualified from the results after placing first to third in the 1966 event.
Motorsport success was の中で the 業績／成就s of the 小型の, though not for this driver pictured at Brands Hatch in 1965
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