Mini Convertible turns 30 years old

The Mini Convertible is now 30 years old, and Mini is introducing a special-edition model in the U.S. to celebrate. The original fixed-roof Mini launched in 1959, but a convertible version didn’t arrive until the early 1990s. The first factory Mini convertible debuted at the 1992 British Motor Show in Birmingham, U.K., where it was billed as the…