The Mini Cooper is the most iconic British-built car of all time, survey shows - but did your favourite make the top 40 list?

But it was the Cooper we feel the most love for since its 1969 film appearance The Mini Cooper has been voted the most iconic British-built car of all time, according to a new survey of motorists. He was commissioned to design the small car by BMC because of the fuel shortage caused by the 1959 Suez Crisis The first of many: The new Austin 7 being tested for stability at the Chobham, Surrey, proving ground skid-pan by designer Alec Issigonis Alec Issigonis, creator of the British Motor Corporation Mini, driving the 1,000,000th Mini off the production line at the Austin factory at Longbridge, near Birmingham The tiny dimensions made it incredibly easy to drive and park. Right: Mrs L. Reynold, of Offerton, Stockport, winner of Daily Mail Mini car competition Mr Donald Dolan, of Kingstanding, Birmingham, being presented with the keys to a new Mini Minor, which he won in a Daily Mail competition, by Jean Morton, an ITV announcer Denise Lilly in a Leyland Mini - a car won as a prize in competition at Ideal Home Exhibition, 1981 Michael Nesmith of pop group The Monkees, with wife Phyllis Nesmith and his new Mini motor car From the archives: Austin-Rover Mini 25 committee give the special-edition Mini 25 the lift-off Thirty years on: The Rover Group marked the third decade of the Mini with this celebratory picture BMC president Sir Leonard Lord set out a design brief for the car maker to produce its own small-scale vehicle, which importantly needed to have box-like measurements, offer ample space and - in order to keep costs down - use an existing powerplant. Motorsport success was among the achievements of the Mini, though not for this driver pictured at Brands Hatch in 1965 Rally driver, Paddy Hopkirk taking Barbare Castle for a spin in his Mini Cooper S rally car that famously took victory at the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally Mr Bean, played by Rowan Atkinson, drove a Mini in the hilarious '90s TV sitcom A scene from the 1969 film, The Italian Job, starring Sir Michael Caine. Right: The same car featured at the British Design 1948-2012 exhibition at the V&A, London in 2012 Mini owners celebrating the 50th anniversary of the car drive through Crystal Palace Park at the start of the annual London To Brighton Mini Run on May 17, 2009 in London Birmingham City Council covered this Mini in flowers as a focal point of the 2011 RHS Tatton Flower Show The Mini for the next century: BMW's not-so-Mini has been on sale since 2001 and is currently in its fourth generation Certainly not Mini anymore: For some, the idea of a Mini being of this size is not fitting of the name In 2019, Mini arrange a meeting of every generation of Mini at Plant Oxford.