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👉 If you enjoyed this breakdown, hit that Hype button to show some love and help push this video further. Some of our other videos They Doubted His Engine - Until It Powered America's Army    • They Doubted His Engine - Until It Powered...   They Mocked His Engine — Until Ford Destroyed Ferrari    • They Mocked His Engine — Until Ford Destro...   The GENIUS Who Solved the Helicopter’s Deadliest Flaw    • The GENIUS Who Solved the Helicopter’s Dea...   For decades, every carmaker agreed: you cannot fit four adults into a car ten feet long. Rear-wheel drive demanded it. The engine, gearbox, and driveshaft to the back axle devoured space. But in 1959, a Greek engineer by the name of Alec Issigonis who hated mathematics destroyed that logic. He turned the engine sideways, buried the gearbox in the sump, and drove the front wheels instead. The result was a car so small it looked like a toy, yet so spacious it humiliated vehicles twice its size. The establishment called it a death trap. The public called it the Mini. Britain's best-selling car in history. To understand why one engineer's obsession with space could destroy an entire engineering doctrine, you have to see the crisis Britain faced in 1956. In September, Colonel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. Britain and France tried to stop him, but the Egyptians responded by blowing up the Syrian pipeline. Twenty percent of Britain's oil supply vanished overnight. Petrol rationing returned to British streets for the first time since the war. Suddenly, the big, thirsty cars that had dominated the roads looked like dinosaurs. Bubble cars—the BMW Isetta, the Messerschmitt KR200, tiny, fragile, two-stroke contraptions from Germany—flooded into Britain. They were awful to drive, questionable in safety, but they achieved over 40 miles per gallon.