I was riding my bicycle one evening through the sleepy township of Toufen in central Taiwan’s Miaoli County. Looking for somewhere to eat and taking the town my eyes were on the prowl and out of the corner of my eye I spotted what looked like a sweet cream-colored Mini. Pulling up, I got my [...]

I’m not too sure what’s going on with the cardboard there (protection from the moon? Or maybe it had been parked there all day), but I spotted this nice and tidy mini on a bike ride through Jhunan (also spelt Zhunan) Township in Miaoli County, down in central Taiwan.

Minis tend to pop up in all sorts of unusual places in Taiwan. Try to catch them as I may, it’s still not all that unusual for them to disappear as fast as they appeared before I’ve managed to snap them. Just the other day I was chasing a Mini down as fast as I [...]

There’s all sorts of Minis out on the roads of Taiwan, but not all of them catch your eye. Every now and then however, you see a Mini that stops your heart. I was walking through the streets of Taipei City’s Xinyi district the other day when I came across one such Mini.

Of the minis that I’ve seen in Taiwan there’s been a distinct lack of what I’d say are classically preserved cars. Probably due to a combination of lack of parts, Taiwanese liking new and shiny, neglect and just the fact that most minis are getting on in years, the cars I see are usually modernized. [...]

I was riding the Long Haul Trucker through Dasi Township (大溪鎮, also written ‘Daxi’) in Taoyuan County late last year when I came upon this old but still respectable looking red mini. Sitting parked just off Provincial Highway 3, I’m not too sure of the finer details but it definitely doesn’t look like the common Rover [...]

It’s definitely not a common sight to see a mini on the roads of Taiwan. Populated by scooters, buses, crazy buses and taxis, seeing a mini is somewhat of a rarity. Let alone two of them together! The other week I wrote about Tweety, the yellow mini pickup I found in Longtan Township. One particular [...]

One of my favourite minis so far in Taiwan sits outside a car repair place just outside the township of Longtan in northern Taiwan. As you leave through the south of Longtan on Provincial Highway 3, Tweety the mini marks the start of an ascent into the mountains and a departure from any major townships until [...]

I’d just come from getting a new passport organised at the Australian embassy near the Taipei City Hall MRT station, when I saw this little mini stopped at the lights;

Most of the minis you see in Taiwan tend to be of the Rover variety that Japan made up until 1993. Not that there’s anything particular wrong with the Rover designs I just prefer the old English Mini design as it’s a bit more minimalist and classic looking. I was riding my scooter in Tucheng [...]