Month: December 2011
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Old school and why it can be so cool
If you follow my blog — and you know you should — you also know that I’ve been writing about cars a lot lately. It’s because I have mastered stretching the car buying process for as long as a year. Between research, taking delivery overseas and waiting for the car to be shipped home, that’s…
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Oh, how my BMW mortal coil fails to fire
Well, it’s come to this: cheap, tawdry misappropriations of poetic metaphors. Yesterday, something happened in my car that made it run rough and have no power. Come to find out today (thanks to an emergency visit to my pals at Village European) that the #4 ignition coil is dead. Prudence dictates that if one coil…
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A brush with the Nobel Prize ceremony
Everyone knows I am a big fan of BMWs; I’m already lusting after a new F30 3 Series, even though they haven’t been officially introduced into the US as yet. I especially enjoy seeing models we can’t get in the US when I am traveling. So, I am always on the lookout for unusual BMWs.…
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We pick up Tricia’s new car in Sweden
Greetings from Gothenburg, Sweden. I’m writing this as Tricia catches a nap – she’s a little jet lagged. How jet-lagged? Well, she fell asleep in a tram while touring a car factory today. A very LOUD car factory. That, my friends, is jet-lag. But I am getting ahead of myself. It took us longer than…