The Good Old Days...

[captain_70s]

On exports - I went to Cuba in 2009 - amongst other things I spotted were - a couple of Minors, a Standard 10 and weirdest of all - a Maxi - fuck knows how that got there.

There's an Allegro running a Lada drivetrain out there as well. Must have been embassy cars or something...

[AMCrebel]

And the buyer thinks small should be cheap.

Unless BMW, Merc, Audi or Aston Cygnet

[SiC]

The 250’000 mile days are probably behind us now tbh unless Japanese.

Depends. If you buy wise and look after them with regular servicing...

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[Nibblet]

I still can't believe that the early Minis were sold at a loss, as was every Minor Traveller. It's just crazy.

Minis were expensive to build, whether that was because of outdated plant or a poor adaptation of the design to mass production I don't know. The Minor Traveller must have been inefficient to build what with the woodwork. Monocoque car bodies of that era were very dimensionally innacurate, must have been difficult to marry up timber and steel with consistently acceptable results.
BL should have off set problems like the aforesaid with good margins on cars like the Stag and SD1, both of which were ludicrously cheap. Partly to avoid stepping on Sir William Lyon's toes I would guess.

[Eddie Honda]

And the buyer thinks small should be cheap.

Unless BMW, Merc, Audi or Aston Cygnet

I'll qualify that argument with "pre-1986".

Your statement may be qualified with "new-fangled tosh"

[Eddie Honda]

The 250’000 mile days are probably behind us now tbh unless Japanese.

Depends. If you buy wise and look after them with regular servicing...
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51k is plenty of time to blow up

[paulplom]

It's usually the acillaries that write motor off. Clutch, turbo, ecu, flywheel etc. Very rare an actual motor fails nowadays.
There are always exceptions though.