saw an M5 in orange county
02-22-2005, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by bimmeroc' date='Sep 26 2004, 01:42 PM
driving northbound to lax to pick a friend in rush hour traffic on the 405 right past south coast plaza i see a black 5....then another black 5.....(and I am in my Titanium grey)...and then a Titanium Grey...5 ..oh no it has duct tapes all over..all 3 cars have dealer plates...this is the M....a diagnostic computer is on the dash...they waive at me......i turn my windows down....rush hour has never been sweeter...i can hear the roar...we are moving at 5 mph so he rolls down the window and we chat....where was my camera when I needed one....
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1) They've must zoomed by you pretty quickly as those cars are wearing "Distributor" (as in BMW of NA) plates and not dealers plates.
2) If you look around, you will notice that these cars are protected by "blocker" cars. An entorage of of regular BMW's whose purpose is to protect and block out any would be lookie lous that takes more interest on the test cars then your average joes.
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02-22-2005, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by beewang' date='Feb 22 2005, 01:23 PM
[quote name='bimmeroc' date='Sep 26 2004, 01:42 PM']driving northbound to lax to pick a friend in rush hour traffic on the 405 right past south coast plaza i see a black 5....then another black 5.....(and I am in my Titanium grey)...and then a Titanium Grey...5 ..oh no it has duct tapes all over..all 3 cars have dealer plates...this is the M....a diagnostic computer is on the dash...they waive at me......i turn my windows down....rush hour has never been sweeter...i can hear the roar...we are moving at 5 mph so he rolls down the window and we chat....where was my camera when I needed one....
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1) They've must zoomed by you pretty quickly as those cars are wearing "Distributor" (as in BMW of NA) plates and not dealers plates.
2) If you look around, you will notice that these cars are protected by "blocker" cars. An entorage of of regular BMW's whose purpose is to protect and block out any would be lookie lous that takes more interest on the test cars then your average joes.
cheers,
beewang
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[/quote]Hey Bee,
Time for you to start having breakfast at that bakery where the test mules always seem to stop. Bring camera!
04-12-2005, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by beewang' date='Feb 22 2005, 12:23 PM
[quote name='bimmeroc' date='Sep 26 2004, 01:42 PM']driving northbound to lax to pick a friend in rush hour traffic on the 405 right past south coast plaza i see a black 5....then another black 5.....(and I am in my Titanium grey)...and then a Titanium Grey...5 ..oh no it has duct tapes all over..all 3 cars have dealer plates...this is the M....a diagnostic computer is on the dash...they waive at me......i turn my windows down....rush hour has never been sweeter...i can hear the roar...we are moving at 5 mph so he rolls down the window and we chat....where was my camera when I needed one....
[snapback]38331[/snapback]
1) They've must zoomed by you pretty quickly as those cars are wearing "Distributor" (as in BMW of NA) plates and not dealers plates.
2) If you look around, you will notice that these cars are protected by "blocker" cars. An entorage of of regular BMW's whose purpose is to protect and block out any would be lookie lous that takes more interest on the test cars then your average joes.
cheers,
beewang
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[/quote]1) BMW plate is a DST plate with # 15776
2) No blockers in SoCA. I drove as one of these drivers for about 2 years and we went out in groups of 3 on one of 8 test routes. Always the same routes so if you see them stop somewhere then they will be back in the next day or so. We were either driving regular cars, testing a new engine or driving prototypes (you had to earn that right over time).
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