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I've just read a report that BMW are to offer a new electronic package just for the UK;it disables indicators,the brakes,turns on main beam and foglights as soon as you start the the car and has automatic radar control allowing the vehicle to remain 1mm. behind your back bumper.
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LOL!
I think I know of a few prototypes running around locally!
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Yawn ....standard for many years.
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Yawn ....standard for many years.
Plenty on the a1(m) south!
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>>standard for many years<<
PU, Would that be the appalling "jokes" or the BMW kit - which of course was thoroughly tested on every Ford, Vauxhall, Volvo, MB, Audi ...well you get the gist ;-)
This next bit would be off topic but hey,....
PS. Well done to all the crowd on the M5 the last 2 nights who think it's a good game to drive through the grit spreader running at full tilt - highly impressive stuff - and if you're the HGVs that took lane 3, I hope you saw Mr Traffic Patrol on the bridge con camera - I guess not then ! :p
Ahh the satisfying thud of a NIP on the doormat.
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NICE ONE!
Just one thing i thought it had been standard for years
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and no doubt similar offerings will be served up on Mondeos, Vectras, Saxos, Corsas, White vans, HGVs [insert any make you have a prejudice against] all trying to prove they are just as good !
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I thought Astravans were the fastest vehicle in the world;no matter how fast you go,an Astravan will be behind you with it's headlights flashing.
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There's another package that makes the car go at a constantly changing, always low speed, wander from lane to lane with its brake lights going on and off and stop suddenly for no apparent reason in the carriageway, preferably at a road junction while turning. Standard on all old Volvos, the package is fitted to around a third of the BMWs in London. When an accident is caused the BMW driver will explain that he or she had hallucinated some hazard or other. However the 'hallucinated pedestrian' feature is an expensive extra, so many drivers may just be lying.
It seems to have been developed for use in self-appointed 'pace cars' (see recent thread on Doncaster), since it renders vehicles so equipped difficult if not impossible to pass.
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Jealousy takes many forms...as does lack of originality
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i have a beemer...
and u know what annoys me about beemer drivers
they park where they want!!
if they stop,,they stop anywhere to answer theirs phones
they will park on roundabouts and crossings
they do drive 1mm from your bumper(even mine!!!)
they are aggresive
dont ask me why
maybe one day i will catch the bug
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www.storme.co.uk
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Better still, get yourself a 7-series like I used to have and every 5- and 3- series will just HAVE to overtake you, LOL!
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I've just read a report that BMW are to offer......
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A special memory aid for BMW drivers that fly away on holiday.
www.dyna.co.za/cars/Car_-_Want_a_BMW_Convertible.j...g
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You like that site today don't you Henry!!
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Followed a smart navy blue 320d, 5 up, for 20 0r 30 miles through sussex surrey sw london last week. Impeccably and briskly driven, didn't put a wheel wrong, quite hard to keep up with in my Escort with no passengers. No complaints whatsoever and reminded me what very good cars BMWs are, common as muck or not.
Wish they were all like that.
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...and some of their drivers....took mine out for a thrash today, don't think I bullied,offended,obstructed or frightened any other road user and still enjoyed it.
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I was driving up the A34 near Oxford a few years ago in an E30 1.6. It was about 6.60am and dark. I saw something odd in the dim distance and slowed a bit as i got a bit nearer I realised it was an accident and then saw the road completely blocked as two artics had crossed the central reservation. I started to brake hard and looked in the mirror and to my relief saw that the car behined was another BMW.
I pulled up safely and so did the car behined me. BMWs stop as well as go.
As it happened I was the first undamaged car on the scene which looked like something out of the battle of the bulge. We were stuck there 6 hours, as they cut and prised everybody out - to my surprise everyone was released from hospital later that day.
The tired old joke about BMW drivers holds no water I find - Subarus and Evo drivers step forward please. The local junior yobs in our village get ferried around in a Renault Scenic.
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You'd have thought that they would also have added a dashboard-mounted hair-gel dispenser on these models also !
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