Various drivers in Canada discuss it on this MINI forum thread: http://www.northamericanmotoring.com/forums/r56-hat…

And how much will that free car wash cost you when some idiot who doesn't care about your car nearly as much as you do messes it up?

The only situation in which someone other than me drives my car is when I take it to the dealer for inspection or service.

Chrome in general but beltline chrome in particular. I've blackened out nearly all of the chrome of my ride but the beltline so far (working on it) because it just looks chintzy.

I did that with my MINI's hood scoop. I hate fake scoops and vents. And if I could get rid of the hideous wart of a side scuttle behind each front wheel without resorting to reworking the body panel, I'd do that too.

I think my 1987 Grand Am had something like this, but I recall various idiot lights in or around the top-view picture of the car. No "door open" lights, though.

I like the mixed use of clear lettering ("mirror") on the one button and symbols right next to each other. That's so helpful.

That's exactly what it is, blanks over controls that are not available in one country but are in another. Example, in my 2013 Cooper S:

"Mum and dad decided we are going to put you in ad that will teach people to be safer drivers by making it look like you and your classmates died. Won't that be fun??"

I want to hear the pitch the producers of the video made to the parents of the children.

As I recall it had a fancy computerized voice that said, "Door is open" or some such. It looked so exotic...

Apparently you haven't been keeping up with the series. Everyone else in the world has: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/arti…

Makes me wonder why they even bother with the photo. Imagine if they found it on his FB page or elsewhere online. Someone who knows him might recognize the photo.

My father had a Topaz in the late 1980s. It was beige on the outside and beige on the inside. So much beige, beige everywhere.

It's also the name of a road around where I live!

Absolutely!

That's another good reason!

Can we stop referring to all of these people, and in general anyone else we personally do not know, by their nicknames?

Needs more holes.

One can still find remnants of the lines that used to take trains right up to factories in towns and cities in the US. In my little town, one of the few surviving factory buildings built early in the last century still has a short length of the train tracks that ran along side the loading doors of the building. The…