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I saved about $500 on my Tag the last time I was in Lucerne. Should have bought an Omega there, lol. Have fun and congrats !! |
Awesome - It will be a blast (both the Euro delivery -and getting to drive your car around while you are there).
My did did that with his 1994 E32. He always talked about it - and gave my Mom lots of excuses to shaker her head - that was so fun to see them both engaged that way. |
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Fixed that for you Loving my 66% 3 year residual on the 550... checked trade value recently out of curiosity and I’m at least $20k upside down right now due to the high residual. Let BMW take the hit. This one will definitely be my record in terms of gap between residual and actual lease end ACV. |
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Congratulations on the early birthday gift. I likey likey both the specs and trip agenda. Anything with "orange" in the name is a good thing, although SO is more reddish than orange most times, and reminds me of IR, and that certainly doesn't reek. Awwww.....nice......to have another orange titled car on the board.
The only comment about the trip details is I would spend more time in the Salzburg and Berchtesgaden area. It's great you have the Eagles Nest on the list, but there's the salt mines, Konigsee and great walking trails to help drink in the beautiful Alpine air and scenery. The kids will be tired due to the jet lag, and a day or two to help everyone unwind and decompress will set up the rest of the trip to be better enjoyed, imo. But even as its planned, it's going to be a great gig for everyone. Oh, and thanks for not getting a Tesla. You can get one of those later, once you're an over 40 geezer..........lol. |
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Good job, FC. Get the car you want so you spend money and enjoy it instead of buying and saying “I should have....” It’s not the last car you’re ever going to buy either way. |
:thumbup: I've "been" to Germany a half dozen times now, but every single time I've either spent the whole time in an airport, or in a barracks. One of these days I intend to take a no-shit trip, but I doubt it'll include delivery of an M3 like yours. Enjoy it!
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Hallstatt is where the salt mines are. So we are spending 3+ days overall in that area. |
LOL- 'quite a trip' is relative...
When I was growing up, a Sunday often consisted of my parents packing us all in the station wagon (1978 Ford Country Squire) for a scenic drive and a picnic. We'd leave Monterey in the morning and go to..... Yosemite for a picnic lunch in the valley or maybe at the Ahwahnee. Do some touring around then drive back. That is about 200 miles each way - and we'd always take fun detours on the way over or back. Guess that is why, to this day - I often take 400 mile drives on a Saturday or Sunday - just to get out of the house. Here is one I do a couple of times each year.... https://goo.gl/maps/uSW4KrXdovm Leave in the morning and have lunch in Leavenworth or Winthrop and do some looking around... then head home. My brother's kids also have been brought up in the 'road trip' environment - Big vacation driving trips from Monterey to Utah or Montana or... Texas.... are a yearly activity. We get our Danish relatives in on the act as well when they visit - they really love it. Especially much so as the scenery is so different from what they have in northern Europe. But - I guess we are just a bit weird. :) |
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I miss Winthrop and Leavenworth. My facebook photo shows main street Leavenworth decked out in xmas lights. I'm not sure how many times I've been to Germany. Between tours during rock and roll days, working for two different German companies during my working career, and trips to In-Laws in Mainz. Easily has to be over 20 visits. I keep telling my wife we need to go for a vacation, and not tell any relatives we are visiting. Just go and be tourists. |
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When my gf and I were doing the traveling CT/x-ray tech thing, we'd drive between 400 and 600 miles a day to get to our assignments. I'd lead with my 3 and she'd follow with her Odyssey. We would communicate via 2-way radios. We've driven across the country a total of 8 times, each time taking different routes. I remember one particular road trip in winter when we were heading east from CA to MA. There was HUGE weather front that was dumping A LOT of snow. We were trying to keep ahead of it and ended up driving close to 700 miles that one day. |
I hated road trips as a kid. I was always car sick and miserable.
I must have been really fun to have as a kid. :lol: |
Some kids (adults) are not able to do the 'road trip' thing....
My manager at work - he doesn't even like driving 40 minutes each morning to get to work. He doesn't like it to the point he is in a carpool (with his wife) and he has never driven when she is available. He just smiles and shakes his head when he hears of my trips to Monterey where I drive 900 miles straight through without stopping. |
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Ah, well, no chance of that. It's in the wrong direction and my wife would not want me to drag her or the kids to that.
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Yeah, in the wrong direction, but I’d do that before Rothenburg, which I remember being a little kitschy and touristy.
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Hey, I'll still ask. If it were up to me, I'd spend the extra $500(?) and extend insurance/registration for a whole month and spend a 3rd week there. After all, camp is costing me nearly $1k a week for both kids, so I'd save that, but my wife is already annoyed at taking two straight weeks off at work.
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OTOH, so much can be done remotely these days, and you know what they say about never thinking "man, I wish I'd spent more time at work." |
This is the third(?) time you've been there and haven't done it? Your first M car? I get it's not in the same direction as everything else on your itinerary, but it's not that far out of the way.
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You could blow up the whole itinerary and just drive to Paris instead. |
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Independent of wives not letting us do things we want to do...
There's a black M3 in my work parking lot and I have to say, it's a great looking car. It made me want to test drive one. I'm sure that will quell any delusions I have :lol: FC, what did you say about them updating the handling? |
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The competition package has basically addressed all of those (less so the steering). The ride (in part thanks to sportier setup and 20" wheels) is not exactly comfier (although surprisingly many claim so) but definitely far batter handling irregularities mid corner. The dIff has also been tweaked. It's a combination of hardware and mapping tweaks. Then there is the sound, which still a turd compared to the E90 M3 to many the exhaust alone is worth the price of admission compared to the vanilla exhaust. Someone went through the trouble of cataloging all F8X comparisons. The later ones tend to talk about the improvements. http://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho....php?t=1067504 From EVO: BMW M4 CP So where does that leave the M4? Way out in front is the short answer. It’s taken BMW a while, but this 2018MY Competition Package version is the car the M4 should have been from the start. From its near-perfect weight distribution to its pared-back kerb weight, the fast and fun BMW feels like a car that’s been developed with the driver’s best interests at heart. ‘It has an authenticity to it that cuts through the challenge of the other two,’ says Towler. ‘It shines brightly pretty much all the time. Whatever the mood, whatever the journey, the M4 feels like an event, like a real performance car, like a car to covet and treasure.’ Like a winner. The bolded sentence is a common theme. |
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