Frank
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
For REAL car buffs ONLY!
Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear)
1. "I'd like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God."
2. [On the Porsche Boxster] "It couldn't pull a greased stick out of a
pig's bottom."
3. [When driving the Mercedes SLR McLaren through a tunnel] "When they
debate as to what the sound of the SLR engine was akin to, the British
engineers from McLaren said it sounded like a Spitfire. But the German
engineers from Mercedes said 'Nein! Nein! Sounds like a Messerschmitt!'
They were both wrong. It sounds like the God of Thunder, gargling with nails."
4. "I'm sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not
driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping
on the couch. If you've got even half a scrotum it's not going to happen."
5. "Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... that's
what gets you."
6. "Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More
comfortable than what... being stabbed?"
7. [On Detroit] "God may have created the world in six days, but while
he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place."
8. "Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was
great, until it pulled your head off, which it would."
9. [On the Renault Clio V6] "I think the problem is that it's French.
It's a surrender monkey."
10. [On the Enzo Ferrari] "I rang up Jay Kay, who's got one, and said:
"Can we borrow yours?" and he said, "Yeah, if I can borrow your
daughter, because it amounts to the same thing."
11. [On the Porsche Cayenne] "I've seen gangrenous wounds better looking
than this!"
12. "The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic
sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw."
13. "Whenever I'm suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a
Toyota Camry and I'm straight off."
14. "If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse
when leaving friends' houses so they don't see its backside."
15. "That [Pagani] Zonda, really! It's like a lion in orange dungarees.
Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time."
16. [On a Chevrolet Corvette] "The Americans lecture the world on
democracy and then won't let me turn the traction control off!"
17. [On the Alfa Romeo Brera] "Think of it as Angelina Jolie.
You've heard she's mad and eats nothing but wallpaper paste.
But you would, wouldn't you?"
18. "A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it,
witchcraft happens and you go faster."
19. "This is a Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers.
Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying 'Oh good, I've
got syphilis, the best of the sexually transmitted diseases!'"
20. "In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car,
put it on sale, and then found out how it handled - usually when one of
their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was."
21. [On the Mercedes CLS55 AMG] "It sounds like Barry White eating wasps."
22. "I'd rather go to work on my hands and knees than drive there in a
Ford Galaxy. Whoever designed the Ford Galaxy upholstery had a
cauliflower fixation. I would rather have a vasectomy than buy a Ford Galaxy."
23. "Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a
diesel powered wheelbarrow."
24. "Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really
work. It's like making a hardcore adult film, and then editing it so
that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of
half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face."
25. "I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to
places quicker than I do?"
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
BMW Driver Says GPS Unit Led Him to Edge of Cliff
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
A British driver has blamed his GPS navigation unit for leaving his car teetering on the edge of a cliff after he followed its instructions.
Robert Jones said he trusted his navigational system and continued to follow it when it told him the steep, narrow footpath he was driving on was a road.
Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, northern England, now has a court date for driving without due care and attention.
His BMW nearly plunged down a 100-foot cliff in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, on Sunday.
He was only stopped from falling after the vehicle rammed into a wire fence.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
3 May 2009 Santa Maria to Solvang Ride
What a great second year ride! Just about the same route we took a year ago, only the final tally was 17 cars to start and 25 for lunch, including representatives of the BMWCCA bay area chapter - our chapter. Three of the Golden Gate Chapter staff joined us, Mike Zampecini for the entire day, and Kelly Collins and Kris Linquist for lunch.
We began at Santa Maria BMW, where our favorite CA Joe Alvarez hangs out. From there we headed south on Hwy 135, to Hwy 1, to a bunch of county roads to Solvang. One small group took a wrong turn south on Hwy 101 back to the junction of 101 and Hwy 1, before realizing their error and driving safely back to Buellton to Hwy 246 to Solvang.
We enjoyed a wonderful lunch at the River Grill, south of Solvang at the Alisal Golf Course. Exhalted Leader Dennis Harrold, an avid golfer, was right at home.
As usual everyone dispels the awful image of Bimmer owners being snobs and arrogant. What a nice bunch of people!
The pics are sort of in order.
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