3rd Gear
Hey Normalizer. You should have asked the pinhead at the gas station if he would be willing to give you his girlfriend and tell his friends HE was a *** if you could prove your MINI was a BMW. Then showed him the tag on the doorsill and the one on the radiator surround! Then, after you won, told his girlfriend you didnt date anyone who dated idiots! 
5th Gear
Depends, when people ask me what I drive I usually say "the new MINI" so it's not confused with the old/original. I have a older few friends/relatives that will ask me "how's the BMW?" and I have no problem with that either. Most people in L.A. ask me "oh, is that the cute new BMW MINI?" Can't get bent outta shape over that
OVERDRIVE
If you are drinking a Dr. Pepper or a Sprite, do you think of yourself as drinking a Coca~Cola?