The issue is it isn't 1966. Having had Minors in the past, I know the 1098 A series engine with the 4 speed (no synchro on 1st) gearbox is not equipped for the modern era.

Take a 500 a CITIGO or a C1. You can drive from say Newcastle to Plymouth @ 80mph with the aircon on listening to your DAB radio in relative comfort on less than 2 tanks of petrol.

Try that in a Minor and you will be deafened, exhausted, sweaty, have blown the engine up or lifted off to cruise at 60mph and probably stopped for at least one extra tank full.

Great cars, but outdated by the end of the 70s.

Has to be a typo, must be 45K.

Why must it be a typo? It only works out at just over 9k miles per year. When looked after properly these simple cars will run for as long as parts can be found.

Would be interested in knowing how the reviewer achieved such high mileage? Any major repairs/replacements? But review does not tell us anything about that; instead we are told in great detail what a fab design the Morris Minor had, almost sounding as if taken from a sales brochure circa 1966.

And any car that is not wrecked will continue to run as long as parts can be found and are replaced.

TBH you probably should have asked all that stuff 6 years ago if you wanted to get a response from the OP...

My first car had a version of that 1098cc engine, and had done 120k miles in 15 years when I got my hands on it. From my experience of it there wasn't a mechanical design weakness, but there were an awful lot of build quality issues in the ancillary parts.

I'd be more interested in finding out how much of the bodywork and chassis were still original by the time of the review, because all of my Morris/Austin/BL cars have been rust heaps.