I love being in my MINI and driving. Whenever my hubby is with me he has to drive though. It was funny on Friday there was a volunteer firemen's convention where we live apparently they do this every year but this year it happened to be that they all came to Olean. There was a parade and it was right down the street from where we live so we took the MINI. We had people stopping us and looking at the inside of the car. They told me that the MINI should take first place even though we were not technically in the parade. We past a truck with a bunch of people on the back and every single one of them told me how much they loved my car. We would drive down the road and people would applaud us it was kind of neat to have so much attention.

You should take your MINI to an Auto-x sponsored by the SCCA...after going to one of those, you will want some private time afterward with your MINI you'll love it so much...
seriously though, it SAFELY improves your driving skills, improves your understanding of your MINI's capabilites and it only costs you $15 a sunday or saturday....there are instructors that'll be more than glad to help you there as well