haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else, but Mark Whalberg was on Conan last night. they spent the first 5 minutes of the interview talking about MINIs, and Conan seemed pretty interested.

highlights:

MW : "It's like a turbo-charged golfcart. But it handles likes a Ferrari."
MW : "Charlize is so tall, that when she drove the Classic Mini, she had to sit in the back seat!"

umm.... Charlize......