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New wintertoy (or must I say a new familycar…) { 0 }
It took me a while to get an other car but the delay had everything to do with the total renovation of our house. About 4 months ago we got the frontdoorkeys from the second owner since 1926 of this lovely little house and now our cottage is almost like we want it to be. [...]
The dreamhouse with garage! { 0 }
Finally my girl and I agreed upon a house we both like and which satisfies both our requirements: a detached house with thatched roof, a big garden and a garage for 4 cars! Offcourse it needs a lot of attention because the current owner lives there for more then 55 years and she hasn’t done [...]
New project! { 3 }
Since I am the proud father of a babygirl (Lieve) priorities are changing. The Z4 M is out of the collection and I still haven’t got myself a new racer. Instead I am looking for a Touring that will fit the needs. Like integrated childseats in the back. Or a retractable bootfloor for easily packing of all the stuff [...]
Sightseeing Southern England { 0 }
Since the baby is due to arrive in a couple of weeks this summervacation was the last with only the two of us. Therefor we decided to take the Roadster and enjoy the English countryside for two weeks. We didn’t make any plans nor any reservation so each night we had to find a new [...]
Le Mans 2010 { 0 }
After driving the M Roadster for 4 months now I can only say it is a marvelous masterpiece of engineering. I added about 6.ooo km’s (now a little over 18.000 km) but it was worth it! The first big trip lead me and my brother to Le Mans to loose our 24 Houres virginity. Two of [...]
Driving the Red Naga Cilli Pepper… { 1 }
Today at the end of the afternoon the weather was very nice so I took the Z4 M out of the garage. Driving with the tip of my toe for 15 minutes to warm the fluids and then hit the throttle; this M product is one fabulously fast and thrilling car! With the top down [...]
Roadsters and babies, bad combination… { 2 }
Wow, I finally have a (almost) new Z4 M Roadster in the beautiful combination Black / Imolared! The car is absolutely perfect, new in every way. The first owner drove only as little as 11.150 km in it in little over more than 3 years. Not very suprising since he had more than one (7) [...]
New project wanted…. { 1 }
Well, what happened? I recently sold both the Alpina as the M5 Touring, so the garage has got room for a new project! As I wrote earlier I am not that into ‘new’ cars, although I must admit that the Alpina was almost upto motoring perfection, but buying an E46 M3 (either as a CSL [...]
Drive by wire { 2 }
Cars today are in mho overengineered and overpowered fat bastards. It was in the late nineties that carmakers thought that adding ever more safety, more luxury and more useless marketing dictated crap was what was getting them the competitive advantage they needed in an ever more competitive world. Before that time they build their cars [...]
What now? { 2 }
Since I became the sudden owner of a perfect Alpina B10V8s Touring I wondered why I’m always attracted to Tourings. I do not (yet) have children, no dog (only a ninenteen year old cat) and my girlfriend doens’t like big cars that much. It probably has to do something with the design of Tourings in [...]
Alpina B10 V8s Touring? { 2 }
I don’t know what happened but all of a sudden I am the owner of an immaculate B10 V8s Touring in ‘Alpinablau’. I always liked the model because it is in fact the E39 M5 Touring that BMW never put into production. After our weekend in the Eifel I was convinced of buying an E46 [...]
Nürburgring with the M5 { 3 }
Last weekend I went to the Eifel in Germany with a friend. We planned to go hiking in the beautiful scenery and we drove off friday evening. Since we went with the M5 (helloooo, the Nordschleife is in the Eifel!) the trip to the Hotel in Blankenheim only took us 3 hours, a combined fill ‘r [...]
E34 B10 4.6 V8 Touring { 2 }
I just shared my intention with you about purchasing my first E46 M3 and now there’s a car on the market that is unique in the way that Alpina produced it only 4 times: E34 B10 4.6 V8 Touring with manual 6-speed transmission! The car is in a way similar to my current M5 Evo [...]
Purchasing an M3 E46 6-speed { 4 }
As you can learn from my collection I have (had) several M5’s and an M3 E36. The next car in my collection has to be an M3 E46 with manual 6-speed gearbox.
Since prices are going down now I don’t think finding a pristine low mileage example for an affordable price is that difficult. I really like [...]
