Coopers make barrels. In this case, barrels of fun

Here's some advice: Don't buy a Mini Cooper unless you own an enclosed, lockable garage. Otherwise, you'll get to talk to your neighbors until 11 o'clock at night. They'll come a-knocking, begging rides, trailing kids with disposable diapers and disposable cameras. And during those rides, other travelers will shout questions at you. From their moving cars.
It's a little hard to fathom this frenzy. The Mini was last sold here in 1967, an object of giddy derision that turned its fair share of Americans off British cars for three decades. Now it's back—24 inches longer, 11 inches wider, 1100 pounds heavier—and turning heads as reliably as the New Beetle and the PT Cruiser.

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