European Meet -- Munich / BMW Welt -- now Sat. 13th June 2009
06-28-2009, 12:55 PM
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My Ride: 2005 BMW 530d M-Sport TouringExterior: Titansilber Metallic, M5 mirrors, ACS rear roof spoiler, BMW Carbon Fiber rear diffuser, Adaptive Xenon headlights, AngeliBright v.3 Angel Eyes, F1 Autohaus Euphoria 6000K LED license plate lightsInterior: Black
Originally Posted by xBMWx' post='926631' date='Jun 28 2009, 11:40 PM
I know what you mean about the autobahn -- enjoy it while you still can 
06-28-2009, 12:56 PM
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My Ride: 2005 BMW 530d M-Sport TouringExterior: Titansilber Metallic, M5 mirrors, ACS rear roof spoiler, BMW Carbon Fiber rear diffuser, Adaptive Xenon headlights, AngeliBright v.3 Angel Eyes, F1 Autohaus Euphoria 6000K LED license plate lightsInterior: Black
Originally Posted by Anzafin' post='926634' date='Jun 28 2009, 11:42 PM
Patrick is driving both cars! That's magic!
06-28-2009, 12:57 PM
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Here is the next batch of photos, this time from inside...
BMW Individual with an awesome 750Li. Very nice touch on the headlights.
F1. The second pic says it all
BMW 135i loaded with BMW Performance parts
See if you can spot them all...
The Z1 owners club doing a day at BMW Welt in style!
BMW Individual with an awesome 750Li. Very nice touch on the headlights.
F1. The second pic says it all
BMW 135i loaded with BMW Performance parts
See if you can spot them all...
The Z1 owners club doing a day at BMW Welt in style!
06-28-2009, 01:10 PM
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My Ride: 2005 BMW 530d M-Sport TouringExterior: Titansilber Metallic, M5 mirrors, ACS rear roof spoiler, BMW Carbon Fiber rear diffuser, Adaptive Xenon headlights, AngeliBright v.3 Angel Eyes, F1 Autohaus Euphoria 6000K LED license plate lightsInterior: Black
BMW Old Timers. 
06-28-2009, 01:20 PM
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After checking out BMW Welt, we went for a spot of lunch on the restaurant terrace outside BMW Museum, which overlooked the BMW Welt with Z1s outside. The food was great, the location obviously also spot on and the prices very reasonable -- definitely to be recommended for a simple light lunch.
It was then time to check out more of Bavaria's finest...
The first thing you see when you walk in is the M1 Concept car that BMW recently showcased
The James Bond cars; a Z3 and a Z8:
The predecessor to the E61
An absolute classic, the BMW 502 V8 -- my Dad has one of these in the garage waiting to be restored, I wish he'd hurry up!
And in those days they had propper badges... that said now adays that would probably fall into the same category as "ENVY"
Speaking of which, can you find yours...??
now come the beasts....
It was then time to check out more of Bavaria's finest...
The first thing you see when you walk in is the M1 Concept car that BMW recently showcased
The James Bond cars; a Z3 and a Z8:
The predecessor to the E61
An absolute classic, the BMW 502 V8 -- my Dad has one of these in the garage waiting to be restored, I wish he'd hurry up!
And in those days they had propper badges... that said now adays that would probably fall into the same category as "ENVY"
Speaking of which, can you find yours...??
now come the beasts....
06-28-2009, 01:37 PM
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I just realised that I only took one pic of the M cars 
I thought my wife had taken pics of all of them. At least I managed to get this one...
You then walk around the corner to the Touring Car hall and a sliding door flashes open and you are confronted with this
You then turn right and are confronted with some of the meanest looking cars I have ever laid eyes on
I was just in awe of the cars in this hall, absolutely awesome, especially the 3.0 CSL "Batmobile"
(More to follow -- that's enough uploading for today )
I thought my wife had taken pics of all of them. At least I managed to get this one...
You then walk around the corner to the Touring Car hall and a sliding door flashes open and you are confronted with this
You then turn right and are confronted with some of the meanest looking cars I have ever laid eyes on
I was just in awe of the cars in this hall, absolutely awesome, especially the 3.0 CSL "Batmobile"
(More to follow -- that's enough uploading for today
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06-28-2009, 07:25 PM
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Beautiful pics, especially on the drive south of Munich going into the mountains. Totally makes me want to do an ED for my next BMW.
06-29-2009, 04:07 AM
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Originally Posted by sdg1871' post='926909' date='Jun 29 2009, 05:25 AM
Beautiful pics, especially on the drive south of Munich going into the mountains. Totally makes me want to do an ED for my next BMW.
07-09-2009, 04:18 AM
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Damn. I must have had my head up my ass the weekend that was happening. I totally never noticed.
Amazed to hear of the problems some of you guys had. These things are born to drive 250kmh all day long. Was my map I'd posted a month or two back showing some of the best places you can reach Vmax any use to anyone?
Amazed to hear of the problems some of you guys had. These things are born to drive 250kmh all day long. Was my map I'd posted a month or two back showing some of the best places you can reach Vmax any use to anyone?
07-09-2009, 04:56 AM
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Originally Posted by DD_545i' post='937110' date='Jul 9 2009, 02:18 PM
Damn. I must have had my head up my ass the weekend that was happening. I totally never noticed.
Amazed to hear of the problems some of you guys had. These things are born to drive 250kmh all day long. Was my map I'd posted a month or two back showing some of the best places you can reach Vmax any use to anyone?
Amazed to hear of the problems some of you guys had. These things are born to drive 250kmh all day long. Was my map I'd posted a month or two back showing some of the best places you can reach Vmax any use to anyone?
We certainly took advantage of the deresticted stretch on the A9 (from your map) heading towards Munich on the Friday, where the 3 of us were "cruising" at 240kmh, but there was too much traffic to go for more. Saturday night was awesome though when coming back up to Munich on the A95... a very long stretch of derestricted empty autobahn and I had the needle gliding between 230 and 260kmh most of the way. That was a real kick and just shows what these cars are designed to do. (That was the last run leading up to my manifold and turbo breaking, but hey, thats another story and would have happened sooner or later anyway
)Shame you missed it, you would have loved the cruise. Maybe you can check it anyway some time, just look a few pages back to the organisation post and you'll find a map and instructions for the root
