[John Rogers]

As Mike mentioned in his post, the car can destroy any anonymity that any of us "normal" people might have. We experienced this back in Jan. 2003 when we bought our Mini Cooper S and nearly every time we would stop someplace we would get asked about it, want to see inside, etc, etc. It got so bad that we used to plan extra time if needed so we could talk about it. That was back when you might see one or two a week in the San Diego area at most. We thought our brush with "fame" was pretty neat.