Mini Moke

This is the catalogue record of the Mini Moke, one of 36 models Mini has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1964. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Mini Moke properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Porsche Porsche 911, the Plymouth Plymouth Barracuda, the Ford Ford Bronco — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Mini Moke reads like this: the record lists its engine as 848 cc BMC A-Series engine / A-series Straight-four engine / I4 / 998 cc A-series I4 / 1098 cc A-series I4 / 1275 cc A-series I4; kerb weight is recorded at 406 kg (early models) / 578 kg (later models); drive goes through 4-speed manual; the layout is FF layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Mini story

Within Mini's own catalogue the Mini Moke sits alongside the MINI Beachcomber, the Mini (3rd Generation), the Mini All4 Racing (2010), the Mini Countryman. Design is credited to Sir Alec Issigonis / John Sheppard. Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Longbridge, Birmingham (Longbridge plant) / Portugal: Vendas Novas / Portugal: Setúbal / Australia: Zetland, New South Wales / Malaysia: Alor Setar / Rhodesia: Umta.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Mini Moke was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.