Actress Anne Hathaway Is NOT The First 2014 BMW i3 Owner In The U.S

Sometimes the media don't quite know what they're talking about.

And so it was with a story that had actress Anne Hathaway importing one of the first 2014 BMW i3 electric cars from Germany for her husband because she didn't want to wait for it to go on sale in the U.S. next spring.

The story, which appeared in multiple outlets--including Arizona Central--was credited to Bang Showbiz.

That entity bills itself as "the world's premier entertainment news agency providing the most exciting celebrity news," but oddly does not appear to have the story on its own site--which hasn't been updated in two weeks.

More restrained coverage in the New York Daily News and the UK's Daily Mail, among others, simply indicated that Hathaway had "gone for a ride" in the car driven by her husband, Adam Shulman.

The idea that anyone, even a famous actress, could legally import a German-market car is somewhere between unlikely and idiotic.