Innocenti Mini 990

The Innocenti Mini 990 was the longer version of the Daihatsu-engined Innocenti Mini, presented at the Turin show in 1986. Its wheelbase was stretched by 160 mm over the Minitre, the windscreen was more sloped for slightly better aerodynamics, and it was sold with either a naturally aspirated petrol or a diesel one litre engine. Innocenti adapted it from a 1982 concept by the coachbuilder Embo, which used the longer chassis of the Mini Traveller. The result gave a more useful back seat and a boot of 295 litres against 280, along with bigger bumpers and a new horizontally barred grille carrying the stylised i logo. It was sold as the SL and the better equipped SE, with a 990 C van version, and after Fiat took over the company in 1990 the Mini range was renamed Small.