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07-11-2010, 11:00 PM | #1 |
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My 2011 Melbourne Red M3 Euro Delivery Beginning to End - LOTS of pictures!!!
As featured on M3POST Homepage.
I know there are lot of writeups on ED, so I just wanted to post my own. Do's, Don'ts, Experiences and of course lots of pictures! So I ordered my 2011 E90 M3 in May and scheduled pickup for July 5th. Melbourne Red E90 Sedan on Speed Cloth with DCT and lots of other goodies! Ordering process:
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Trip Schedule Consisted of the following:
Route: Click here to see route Where to start off, unreal, once in a lifetime, incredible...? basically all that and more. Since I ordered the sedan I figured I would take my parents since i'm lucky to still have them. I'm 31 so I haven't been on vacation with them in probably 10+ years so i'm overdue. Did I save any money on the car vs US invoice, ehh no not really, the trip basically evens out, but I still came in about $10k below MSRP! Saturday: We flew out 8PM Saturday and arrived 10AM (7 hrs) Sunday. I brought a little reading material for the flight, DCT manual haha Oh and arriving at the airport, BMW everywhere! Sunday: Talk about jetlag, I couldn't sleep a wink. I was planning on going on "Mike's Bike Tour" in Munich later on Sunday, no go. We walked around, got food, beer over at the Lowenbrau Biergarten, saw some of the Marienplatz area and I was passed out at 8pm. No way did I have energy to bike with a tour group for 4 hours. Pretty simple day. Btw important to know a lot of places are closed sunday, so few shopping was available. We stayed at the 4-star Kings Hotel in Munich, VERY nice hotel and GREAT bang for the buck. HIGHLY recommended. Def do not book via BMW, get it via expeidia/hotels.com. Think it ran $100-120 for the night. Oh and across the street was a Tittay-Bar, can't beat that! Too bad me and my dad never got a chance to sneak out and head over haha Lowenbrau House right down the street Also down the street for all you ballers, there is the Charles Hotel, starts at $400 EUROS a night! Maybe if I was buying the SLR parked outside I'd be staying there! Monday: I woke up at 4AM and couldn't fall back asleep, combination of the excitement of getting my car at 9AM and being completely screwed up from the time difference. Grabbed a taxi and shot over to the Welt, it was early enough to miss the Munich traffic and we were there standing outside at 7AM ready to go (opens 7:30). Talk about a HUGE complex, not just the Welt, but the HQ and factories! BMW's everywhere, all the BMW workers driving by and entering the factory, heaven! View from the autobahn, talk about a HUGE building!!! Hell yeah!!! We walked in the Welt at 7:30, was greeted and did all the signing in BS. They took us to the ED VIP area, free food, beer, etc... from there you get to look down on the ED arrival platform and see all the cars that are there for pickup! We hung out there from 8-9AM when I was scheduled to pick up my car. They have a nice monitor to see when you are scheduled for pick-up! View inside the Welt, lots of models to see and play with. VIP Lounge BMW Video games, get to drive a 135i around a track Engines on display, however they didn't have the V8... oh well, i was soon to have my own! I was going to save this for last, but of course parked outside was this........ Brand new 997.2TTS!!!!!! OMG... Probably a BMW exec or something, if I only had another $110k to spend on a car Ok back to my pickup.... From the VIP lounge you look down on the ED platform... The early AM pickup cars are there first, then later more cars arrived. I saw OC ///M's car from up top... a gorgeous E92 ZCP Silver/FR Then I looked over the edge some more and...and...and..... Could it be!?!?!?!?! I think my eyes almost popped out of my head with excitement and my heart skipped a beat! That had to be mine! Now the 45 minute wait till 9AM... Well i stayed in the VIP area because I didn't want to ruin more of the surprise... I technically only have from 9-9:30 to look at the car and take it because more people need to have theirs loaded throughout the day... It's now my time... 9AM, I was greeted by my rep and taken down the stairway to heaven! Car was spinning like in a showcase... so stunning! Course now I had to drive it out of the showroom, down the famous Welt driveway through the tunnel and out to freedom! I must say that the speed cloth surprised me since on pre 2011 models the cloth only went up 1/2 the seat however on mine it went the entire length. Still love it! It matches the leather perfectly and wow is it comfortable! I feel a huge difference in how it hugs me into the seat and zero-sliding in corners. The only options I didn't get were ZCP, those annoying front squirting headlight washers, and sun shades. Other than that it's pretty loaded. I'm 100% happy with the Melbourne Red, OMG is it stunning in person. It's not maroon, deep red, just RED. Fits the E90 body with the black trim perfectly IMO. Just makes the sedan more "sporty" since it's not the typical M3 coupe. Couldn't be happier with my options... well the Rust Brown would have looked hot too Now it's off to enjoy Germany and Austria! First stop was the Fussen area where the Neuschwanstein Castles were located. Drive was amazing, sooo many back roads, winds, turns, country sides and the mountains just keep growing and growing, it's like being on another planet compared to the NY/NJ area. I can't get over how clean everything was. People mow 10 acre farms with 3ft blade push mowers! Talk about hard workers. Oh and cows... lots of cows. You wonder why they eat so much meat there. Few times the smell of cow poop made me have to close the windows I was afraid the stench would get stuck in the Speed Cloth Well more pictures... Another Turbo at the castles... think the guy was from Porsche Club of America, might have rented it for the trip, heard him talking about something along those lines. Talk about fun, renting a Turbo to drive around Germany! Carefully parked at the hotel at the castle... stayed at the Alpenstuben, def get the "romantic" room, very beautiful and a great view of the castle! View from hotel room Ok so those pictures were taken the day we arrived, it decided to rain overnight and almost all the next day, we did the whole castle tour in the rain, took the 45 minute walk up and down to the castle, not recommended in uncomfortable shoes or sandals. Very cool experience though. Ok in the rain it was now off to Innsbruck, Austria, talk about a drive, wow more amazing roads. I would have taken more pictures of the roads, but many times there was no safe place to stop there were so many curves and once you start getting into Austria you are heading up then down a giant mountain and i think it was up to a 16% grade with warning signs and run offs for trucks that lose their brakes. One of the best places to take pictures (as you will see below) was in Plansee, Germany The pictures on the lake and with the mountains were just breathtaking! The water was so clear i just wanted to jump in and go swimming. If I knew ahead of time I would have stayed there since they offer scubadiving in the lake! Next was Austria. We stayed at the Romantik Swiss Adler, HIGHLY recommended. Gorgeous place, covered in Swarovski Crystals throughout the rooms. (I don't give a crap, but the GF and mom liked that), we did 1 full day there, didn't get to do the ski lift to the top of the mountains but the roads there were like I said... just out of fantasy. Nurburgring can kiss the ass of Austria's backroads. Seriously. Some pics of Austria... Famous Golden Roof Reindeer Goulash, omg Blitzen tasted so good! Ice cream, chocolate, crepes... My hotel After Austria, on the way home it was time for a wash... that rain really made my new baby dirty, only ran 5 euros and almost all car washes are do it yourself, sweet! All clean. Back to Germany, headed up toward Tegernsee, Germany. GIANT lake, highly recommended to stay there if you have time. Whole community and resort on the lake. Not cheap to stay but very relaxing and lots of high end shopping. Rent a boat, go out for a swim,etc. I promise if you take the back roads home to Munich from Tegernsee, you will want to move there. Tegernsee I thought Austria had windy roads, I swear I couldn't go more than 1000 ft before there was some type of extreme turn that also had a grade to it and went through forests and open back country. Unfortunately I had to take it a bit easy since the 'rents in the back seat were getting car sick. no fun... Awesome place to stop for food, btw watch out for bikers, both motorcycles and regular bikers they are EVERYWHERE. Some fancy moving shots lol After that it was home to Munich... long story short... when I got back I realized I lost my passport . Of course where was it????? BACK IN AUSTRIA! Well turned out I just had to put another 200 miles on the car, drive back via the autobahn at a comfy 80-100mph, pick it up, thank the hotel, drive back home Warp Speed!! My Poor Mother the whole time, I think she wore out my Oh-Sh*t Handle Now I just have to say I've been worried about mpg with this car. I was getting 21-22mpg on the autobahn at 85mph. So seriously that more than compensates for the 11-14 in the city But to wrap up the experience I chose to drop my car off at LOG-IN-OUT in Munich (quickest way to get your car back). No way would i have it any other way... wait an extra 2 weeks for the car my ass! Place was pleasant, quick and easy. Oh and look who I parked next to... Look familiar to the car at the Welt!? OC ///M Dude seriously you forgot to wipe all the bugs off the front of your car! That rots your paint! Then off to the airport where I saw this... Frozen Grey/FR E92 on showcase. OMG Love the paint. If you haven't seen one in person, it's stunning. Also the paint leaves NO finger prints and is super smooth. Made me rethink my MR... well just for a second Some more random pics... Alpina B7 anyone?!?!?! SLOWMAN I got some shots of you leaving the Welt! Couple things I got out of the trip for anyone who does ED
Hope you enjoyed my write up!!!! Now 6 weeks till I get my car!!!
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07-12-2010, 12:20 AM | #4 |
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aw man im jealous!! Looks like the perfect trip!!
Good thing you didnt go to that titty bar.. its expensive. Er... so i hear.
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07-12-2010, 01:07 AM | #5 |
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wow, GREAT writeup!
hope i can take a look when it gets back to Difeo... lol, especially the speed cloth which looks very good on MR. i can't wait to put mine on order... one question, How doe the tech pack/navi work in Europe? does the navigation cover all european roads? when it gets back to the states, it would just work for the states ? (I guess they just change the DVD?) |
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Awesome write up, amazing car, congratulations!
The pic of your mom in the back is hilarious - LOL Ahh, pretzels and large beers - does it get anymore Bavarian than that? Germany's a gorgeous place, especially Bavaria, looks like you had a great time and picked up one amazing car. Hopefully it gets on the ship and to you ASAP! Congrats!
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Nice write up!!!
I'm so jealous I, but I will be there is 24 days. The 220M wheels still look classy on the M3!
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Thanks everyone! Truly was an amazing trip, we probably took over 1000 pictures. My GF now wants to hopefully do one someday for an X5. Amazing how many people do this for all types of BMWs.
Couple things I forgot to mention. You only have about 30 minutes with the car on the platform, kinda short if you ask me, I felt kind of rushed. However, eventually I finally got some time alone with the car to just sit there in amazement. Few random things...The new rear lights just look amazing when it gets darker out, I was able to get the manual to fit in the glove box, back is very roomy, everyone was very comfortable the whole ride, the 220 wheels stayed very very clean. Must be the polished aluminum, after 300 miles they barely had any dust on them at all! The ZCP wheels on the other hand seemed to hold the dirt more on other M3's I saw. Saw this in the parking deck outside Kings Hotel Love the seats Quote:
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Awesome writeup... I hope to do ED one of these days!
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Great Photos!
I really want to do this for my next M!
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They would have to ship the X5 from South Carolina plant to Munich for that to happen. Guessing they wont. Im really happy you decided to do more on your ED trip. Quote:
s! Seriously, thanks for the thread. Its bringing back all my great memories from my trip!
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Nice, thanks for posting!
I hope to do this one day. Another E90 M3 - gettem while you can
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Awesome writeup. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing!
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Very cool pics. Based on that Glockenspiel shot you probably walked right by me and my wife eating at the restaurant directly opposite the display.
Didn't think about it at the time but should have offered to take a pic of all of you by your car in front of the Welt. |
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Thanks for the excellent review of your experience. These are very valuable threads. CONGRATULATIONS and enjoy it to the fullest!
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Btw Yes they do X5 ED... there were 2 X5's there on the platform!
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