Oooh ... Mini Cooper! That's my current "wanna have it" car. I actually have a little bitty toy Mini on my desk. And if you pull it back and let it go, it goes "zoom." :-)
There's a scene in the recent remake of "The Italian Job" where the blue Mini gets gouged all along one side by the tail rotor of a helicopter. After watching that, randibeeman said, "That's a horrible thing to happen to my second-favorite character in the movie!" When I asked the obvious question, that of her first favorite: "The red one, of course."
Automotive cuteness
There's a scene in the recent remake of "The Italian Job" where the blue Mini gets gouged all along one side by the tail rotor of a helicopter. After watching that,