The MOKE has had one of the strangest journeys of any cult car. Starting life as the Mini Moke, the original car was launched in 1964 as a British-built utility vehicle based, as the name suggests, on the ultra-compact BMC Mini designed by Sir Alec Issigonis. Issigonis was also responsible for the stripped-back Moke, in collaboration with John Sheppard, originally intended to be produced alongside the Mini but pitched at the military (mindful perhaps of Land Rover’s success in this area).
