Company executives claim very few identical examples have ever been produced.
As each model is made to order, a huge combination of options is available - there are theoretically 150,000,000,000,000,000 (150,000 billion), according to Nikolai Glies, the firm's Plant Oxford communications director. "In any year, it is unlikely that two identical MINIs leave the plant," he said.
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