The new Cooper S

MSNBC reviews the new Cooper S and likes what they see. BMW has made the car 3 inches longer, made the suspension much more forgiving (something that I think I'll appreciate if I get another one), and done tons of other things in the process of totally revamping the internals of the Cooper while leaving the external appearance virtually unchanged. The best line from the story? That's got to be this:

If Apple designed a car, it would be the Mini Cooper.

The author does go on for a while about how hard he finds it to read the way-nifty center-mounted speedometer. I've never had a problem, but maybe I'm enough taller than the reviewer that I have a different angle on it.