Living in & Around Watkins Glen, one usually sees some pretty interesting stuff. That being said, I have seen relatively few '02's and even less of the 1600's. I do get honks, waves & thumbs up when driving the 1600 around. 2 of the best comments I have ever heard though were at the track during vintage weekends. I had the 1600 sitting behind the esses grandstand and overheard 2 younger couples taking about it: "What is that?" "It's an MG" (I almost fell over laughing but kept quiet so I could hear the rest of the conversation). The guy from the 2nd couple said "No, that's not an MG, its British, That's what BMW stands for, British Motor Works". At that point I just kept walking by, not really believing what I had heard. Later that same day, I was opening the door and a guy came up to me and said "Is that Granada?" Still with the previous thoughts in my head from the MG comment, I thought he said, "Is that A Granada?" (thinking he meant a Ford Granada), I replied , "No, its not a Granada, its a BMW 1600". He kind of chuckled and said "no, I mean is the color Granada?" I laughed and told him the story of the previous comments about it. We chatted a bit about the car and he was very nice. Even at this years Vintage, there were very few '02's there and I had a lot of positive comments & conversations about it. I do get the comments as listed a lot in previous posts: "I used to have one, my dad/brother/uncle/neighbor etc. had one, wish I/they still had it". A few years ago, I was driving home to Horseheads from a race, it was dark and someone was following me pretty close. I knew it was a BMW by the headlights and wondered what the person was doing. Didn't matter how much I sped up or slowed down, he kept right on my tail. So I pulled into a gas station looking like I was going to put gas in the 1600, and this car follows me right in. At this point I'm thinking "oh great, what is this all going to be about". Turns out it was an E46 with a 20 something kid driving it. He gets out and says to me, "is that really a 1600? I've never seen one before, I've only heard of them, Wow! That is cool, can I please take a picture of it? I want to prove to my buddies that I actually saw a 1600!" So he took his picture and we chatted for a few minutes. If he thanked me once he thanked me a dozen times. I guess the 1600 really made his day!