Does it matter that this British icon is being taken over by an American company?
It has become a British icon, although it was not universally loved at the start.
The legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin is revered as a British icon.
The campaign uses photographs of British icons interspersed with men and women in their 20's clad in trendy outfits.
The Minor has been described as typifying "Englishness", a "British icon" and a "design classic".
The original is considered a British icon of the 1960s.
Today Camp is a British icon of nostalgia, as many remember it from their childhoods.
British folk-punk icons the Levellers also regularly use the mandolin in their songs.
Punch, the weekly magazine of satire, cartoons and reviews that was once a British cultural icon, has just been brought back from the dead.
Issigonis was knighted for his creation, and the Mini became a British icon.
