Mini Moke

Start with what the Mini Moke is: a 4-seat convertible (car) / convertible / 2-seat Pickup truck / pickup with 848&nbsp, built from 1964 to 1993, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Sir Alec Issigonis / John Sheppard.

The background

The Mini Moke is a small, front-wheel-drive utility and recreational convertible, conceived and manufactured as a lightweight military vehicle by British Motor Corporation (BMC), and subsequently marketed for civilian use under the Austin, Morris, Leyland, and Moke brands. The name "Mini Moke" combines mini with moke, an archaic term for a mule. The Moke is known for its simple, straightforward, doorless design and for its adaptability.

BMC's Cowley plant started building Mokes in January 1964, with 14,518 produced in the UK between 1964 and 1968; 26,000 were manufactured in Australia between 1966 and 1981; and 10,000 in Portugal between 1980 and 1993 when, after a nearly 30-year run, production ended. In 2013 a new Chinese version appeared, made by Chinese automaker Chery Automobile started production in China of a new car called Moke. This evocation of the design is assembled and distributed by a number of companies in several countries including England, France, and the US, although ownership of the Moke trademark is disputed. This Moke is a full new design and shares nothing with the original British Mini Moke.

The engineering

The engine is 848  other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 406 kg&nbsp. Drive goes through a 4-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2020 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Where it sits

In the Mini line-up the Mini Moke has a clear place: the factory was Longbridge, Birmingham. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Porsche 911, the Plymouth Barracuda, the Ford Bronco. Its Mini stablemates include the MINI Beachcomber and the Mini (3rd Generation).

Owning one today

There is no federal ownership record for the Mini Moke — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.