It's a Cult-The Mini-Cooper World Wide Conspiracy

HarleyDad has blogged on the auto that went to church. It was the VW. Now the VW became a classic.

Today the bug is rarely seen except in Mexico City where many of them have gone to hide out often masquerading as green and white taxi cabs. But in its hey-day before Yuppies were born, the VW was a romantic car of the people. It captured the imagination. Fortunate the person who had a VW convertible. It was economical. It was fun.

Now the spirit of the early VW has been reincarnated by BMW into the Mini-Cooper. It is small; it is squat; it is taking the world by fiat.

All this has occurred while HarleyDad has his head in a blog fog. It was then that he had an epiphany. As I was walking by Ah-me's desk at the office, I noticed her screen saver-it was a bright yellow Mini-Cooper. I asked Ah-me why she was using that small squat car as a screen saver. Her answer was revealing. "I just love it," she said. "It is so cute! I want to buy a Mini-Cooper some day."

HarleyDad, like Rip Van Winkle, woke up from his twenty years of sleep and realized that the VW spirit had been reincarnated. A cult car had been born again into the world.

HarleyDad suspects that the masses will be attracted to the Mini-Cooper and never know why.

Already the cult status has been signaled by the use of the Mini-Cooper by Austin Powers. Shaggidelic, Baby. It looks to me that the Mini-Cooper should be driven by Mini-Me or Mini-Maus.

The Mini-Cooper Conspiracy is world wide as evidenced by the International Mini-Cooper Internet Portal.

Get ready to see Mini-Cooper owners meeting in secret covens discussing at midnight the advantages and fun of driving a Mini-Cooper.

I believe a new cult has been born.

Ah-me, you should be ashamed! But thanks for your screen saver. Just pray that your Mini-Cooper does not hit small animals lest it become road kill itself. (See, these are just the type of comments the early VW engendered).

HarleyDad