"You can't just sit down one day and decide to make a cult object," says someone who himself has become something of a cult object over the years. The man's name is Gert Hildebrand, now-recently former head of MINI Design. What a ride. For the last ten years, Gert has shaped the development of MINI with a keen eye for aesthetics and an unmistakable design vocabulary true to the functionality of Classic MINI iconography that made it an unmistakable classic. Hildebrand's achievements are all the more striking given how ingeniously he approached Frank Stephenson's trademark look for the first generation of new Classic MINI......

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