amigo525

Vegas? If I could meet Marge Helgenberger...sign me up -

Now, of course, being in Germany I'd be partial to a meeting here. No matter where the meeting is a portion of attendees would not have their cars because of the transport issue.

The idea would be for a place that could benefit the whole of us - like seeing the E60 being made and see it become the car we love from raw metal. We don't have to show our cars to the rest of the world, but it'd be nice to see the other member's cars.

My suggestion - instead of Munich - would be somewhere in Bavaria with a stop at the Dingolfing plant where they make the 5, 6 and 7er Bimmers.

I just toured the factory on Friday and it's an experience and a half. It would have to be on a weekday, and I could find out how many people they'd take at once. They do large groups Mo-Thu, and individuals - up to 5 people per group on Fridays. They walk over 40,000 people a year through it.

You see roll steel come in one end and an M5 (550, 750, 525, etc) come out the other end (with a stop at a testing room where they're doing 100MPH on rollers and testing lights, brakes, you name it) and you see most of the stations in between. It was a ballet of Robots. Had I been the Terminator, I would have had a woody the whole time looking at these magnificent robots stamping, cutting, glueing, fitting, pressing, laser-measuring to a tolerance of 0.15mm, non-stop 24/7. 16 to 40-ton presses just working that metal. No beer break for these puppies, and not a flaw in the end product. My Terminator mind would have thought I'd died and gone to the biggest whore heaven.

Anyway, I could find out and post some ideas. The Public relations gentleman who walked us through was very helpful and he'd be the one to contact for a meeting of this magnitude.

What say ye?

Regards,
Santiago
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Actually you hit the nail on the head. That is the right purpose for the meeting

rodybmw

Would it be Alexander that you are talking about? He is great !

As far as the tour....I attended it once, but I don't think I will ever get tired of seing it over and over again. It would be a great idea for a meet, but maybe BMW can "sponser " it by providing those of us that can't bring our own cars with substitute E60's while we attend the meet in Germany (I'll take one of the M veriety, thank you very much )

Steve Gill

Great idea Santiago Put my name down for this.