Archive for the 'BMW' Category



Jump for Joy!

Magnus and me have designed some cool t-shirts, hoodies and polo-shirts with the DSC OFF logo used in BMW cars to indicate that all electronic driving aids like DTC, ESP, ASC+T are switched off.
Usually you want to do that when driving on race tracks or a bit more “ambitious” on winding roads.
The shirts are ready [...]

Some Pictures from Mantorp Park

Magnus shot some pictures of me driving on the race track at Mantorp Park this weekend. You can see some more pictures if you follow the link below, just klick on the picture.

From 120d on the r…

Jeeeeez, that was real fun, I definitely need a race car project. Well maybe there will be some 323ti [...]

“Mapodo” – or: I’ll buy my motor oil online from now on

I recently made my first experience with Mapodo, an online shop for motor oils and lubricants. As most of the high quality motor oils are quite expensive here in Sweden I’m always looking for cheaper alternatives. Mapodo was discussed on various automotive forums such [...]

A late Christmas Gift

In my search for new rims for race use and merely cheap tires for them I found some almost new BMW M Double Spoke 208 18″ rims. These rims are more or less new, only ~500 KM old and so are the tires, no need to buy new tires in spring. These rims are originally [...]

Mail a Google map-point to your car!

How cool is that?

Seems like BMW is leading innovation now again, together with Google. Very nice indeed, maybe I should upgrade my Car sooner as planned.

Google in your BMW!?

The future is here…

It took 31 years

…to get an F1 racer on the famous Nordschleife again. The course was removed from the F1 schedule in 1976 due to a series of real cruel crashes. Nick Heidfeld drove 3 laps in a 2006 BMW F1 racer for a promotional event, see the video below:

Everybody should have an (M) button…

…at least I would love to have one!
Top Gear – BMW M5 – video powered by Metacafe

New STCC cars presented!

Today “West Coast Racing” / “BMW Dealer Team” presented their new cars in Stockholm (Gamla Stan). Hopefully the 2007 season of STCC will be a more successful one and BMW will win the STCC championship 2007 as in 2005.

Erfahrungsbericht eine Woche 120d

Mahlzeit!
Mein 1er ist ja jetzt etwas über eine Woche bei mir und ich dachte mir da wäre mal ein kleiner Erfahrungsbericht ganz angebracht. Am Freitag den 10. November war es endlich soweit, mein Verkäufer von „Olle Rutgersson Bilcentrum AB“ hat angerufen und mir mitgeteilt das der 1er jetzt endlich gekommen ist. Hab ja auch schon [...]