Meet n' Greet (Exhaust Sampling): Greater Toronto Area, March 2012

[kenjutsu]

Great meet. Thanks for organizing. Sorry I had to leave early...daddy duties. I was the black E93 of the only Corsa exhaust.

[breakfast]

Glad I showed up.

was awesome.

pretty sure

MK599 +5 - (KREISSIEG)

was the highlight for me.

absolutely beautiful...unless someone else had that really loud white one.(recaros inside)

[Gkap]

Was a fantastic turnout. Lets do this again soon!

[TTSam]

Originally Posted by shizzle

It's probably best to just blank out the license plates. I'm pretty sure most would rather they be blanked out.


Oh, and great turn out, it was nice to see so many M3. Thanks to RO Turbo for organizing!

For the photos I agree.

But cannot do on the video - so I will wait until participants pipe in to say if they mind their plates being seen in the video.

[Giccy]

Originally Posted by Gkap

Was a fantastic turnout. Lets do this again soon!

+1

[Mr. ///M3 RD]

First ... Thanks a bunch RO_turbo for organizing this it was simply fantastic (next time we will calculate the diameter of a circle and get everyone to park in a circle for a great photo shoot ). Still you organized it well

Second ... It certainly was nice to meet some of you fine folks, will certainly try to meet more the next time so let's do it again.

Third ... I too like to hear more of the exhaust sound on video clips. Perhaps all of you that attended can record the sound and post it here it was certainly great to listen to it in real life

Last .... and certainly not least ... thanks to all you others that came out with your fine cars Z4M ... 335i ... 335is .... and the fine looking 1M it was nice to see you all ... as someone already said let's do it again it was great fun.

I saw the fog move in so I made my way back home going west toward 402 and then home.

I am adding some photos I snapped with my iPhone ... funny how technology moves as fast as it does ... I have 3 other cameras 2 of them digital and like to use my iPhone the best ....

Drive safely and have a super weekend everyone

Cheers ... Rolf

[TTSam]

Originally Posted by Daft

Here's my iPhone pic contribution...

Daft - very impressive car, one of my favorites. 550 HP with the SC. Wow.

The GTR that pulled into the lot had nothing on your car.

You would probably give the new M5 a run for its money.

[TTSam]

Some more shots.

2 of my favorites from today.

The frozen black car. The interior was amazing with all the seat stitching.

Exterior - stunning.

My other favorite - the E90 4 door with the recaro seats.

I hate to admit owning a coupe - that the E90 version can look even more aggressive.

Also liked very much the Dakar Yellow, the grey BMW performance exhaust car of Mr. Track Guy, and Rolf's beautiful blue.

The Fox Red interior convertible was also impressive.

[JulieDriving]

Originally Posted by Alter Peter

.....

I am adding some photos I snapped with my iPhone ... funny how technology moves as fast as it does ... I have 3 other cameras 2 of them digital and like to use my iPhone the best ....

Rolf, thanks for all those photos with the plates and faces blurred out.

p.s. I know I gotta go black (or I'll regret it), but damn LeMans Blue looks good. Thanks for the pics of the black M3s too...

I was a little tired too, driving back to central-west ontario, and left soon after you did... but I'm already looking forward to the next meet. Actually, we probably live not far from each other.

Originally Posted by picus

Damn that is some crazy turnout. Nice pics guys.

Wait till you see the pics with the cars all lined up by color.

My husband took a video walking down the 'aisle' of M cars.... I'd like to post it up but, like TTSam, I don't know how to edit out license plates and people's faces in a video...

[Daft]

Originally Posted by TTSam

Daft - very impressive car, one of my favorites. 550 HP with the SC. Wow.

The GTR that pulled into the lot had nothing on your car.

You would probably give the new M5 a run for its money.

Hey thanks. That's 550hp to the wheels btw
The GTR did sound badass tho

[JulieDriving]

Originally Posted by TTSam

Some more shots.

2 of my favorites from today.

....

Some of your favorites were mine as well. And thanks for your pictures!

I still can't get over how good the M3 looks in various colors.

White. What can I say? You can't go wrong with Alpine White (were 40% of the M's AW or something?, lol) Really liked the metallic sheen of Mineral White (first time I've seen it, it looks better than in pictures)

Black. Meeeean.

Space Gray. Muuuuscular.

Silverstone. Cleeeean.

Melbourne Red. Suits the M well.

Blue. LeMans is a perfect blue color IMO.

etc.

[TTSam]

Originally Posted by JulieDriving

Some of your favorites were mine as well. And thanks for your pictures!

I still can't get over how good the M3 looks in various colors.

White. What can I say? You can't go wrong with Alpine White (were 40% of the M's AW or something?, lol) Really liked the metallic sheen of Mineral White (first time I've seen it, it looks better than in pictures)

Black. Meeeean.

Space Gray. Muuuuscular.

Silverstone. Cleeeean.

Melbourne Red. Suits the M well.

Blue. LeMans is a perfect blue color IMO.

etc.

So Julie - what colour are you going to chose?

Pick the colour your gut tells you to.

You cannot go wrong in whatever choice you make and we will all support that choice.

[TTSam]

Originally Posted by Daft

Hey thanks. That's 550hp to the wheels btw
The GTR did sound badass tho

I agree the GTR did sound good.

So add to your stable a GTR

[BMWNTHZST]

RO_Turbo thanks for organizing this meet. The turn was was quit something. I think at one point I counted close to 50 M's (pretty impressive).

It was nice to meet many of you and put real names and faces to your forum name.

Hope to see meet again soon!

[Mr. ///M3 RD]

Originally Posted by JulieDriving

Some of your favorites were mine as well. And thanks for your pictures!

I still can't get over how good the M3 looks in various colors.

White. What can I say? You can't go wrong with Alpine White (were 40% of the M's AW or something?, lol) Really liked the metallic sheen of Mineral White (first time I've seen it, it looks better than in pictures)

Black. Meeeean.

Space Gray. Muuuuscular.

Silverstone. Cleeeean.

Melbourne Red. Suits the M well.

Blue. LeMans is a perfect blue color IMO.

etc.

Julie, I agree with Sam ... go with your gut ... (btw gut = great or okay in German ) in the end you will be driving it for some time to come ... you still have time to make the choice as long as you go with ... well what you really really like

My first M3 was silver, my second was Alpine White and I have to say I like the LeMans Blue Metallic the best, it does give different shades of blue all depending on the light of day much like my Orion Silver Z4 35i did (photo in my past cars garage).

Best of luck making the colour choice I know you are struggling with that decision in the end whatever you pick will be the right choice.

Cheers, Rolf

[inTgr8r]

Great day guys!
Thanks for organizing it and letting the M Coupes join in.

[Andy1991]

Here is a little work on those ones with BBK

forgive my terrible PS skill lol.

Very happy to see so many M3's all at once, with different mods... and thanks for RO Turbo who organized this meet. But I just want to make a little suggestion. If you have a chance to organize the same kind of meet in the future, you should help the folks to park the cars in different poses for photoshoot, rather than just line-up.

Just my 2 cents, Thanks again.

[Mr. ///M3 RD]

I know all of you are car nuts like myself ...

I bet you all enjoy this short video clip about how VW builds there high end car in Dresden Germany. I took a tour there in 2009 naturally I was not allowed to take my camera inside.

Go to this link ---> Click here to view the short Video

Our ///M3 is build under similar condition just not that far advanced I don't think when it comes to parts management / delivery I mean. There is quite a bit of handwork involved when VW builds there TOP END CAR costing some 125,000 Euros

If you ever do a ED for your next car don't miss to visit this place.

Cheers, Rolf

[JulieDriving]

Originally Posted by TTSam

So Julie - what colour are you going to chose?

Pick the colour your gut tells you to.

You cannot go wrong in whatever choice you make and we will all support that choice.

Yeah, I've gone back and forth on this too many times but I applied a test to myself on the way home...

"If I were sitting in {x color} car at a stoplight and then {y color} car rolls up next to me, would I regret it?" I paired colors against each other until I ended up with my original choice, Azurite Black.

A couple of pics (Azurite90M's M3):



Azurite Black is actually a very dark blue, rather than a black. It's similar to your previous Carbon Black that way, although it is more blue (than Carbon or Jerez Black). I got to see one in person.

p.s. I think I may go back to my original timeline for getting the car, if I can get a production slot soon.

[BMWNTHZST]

Originally Posted by JulieDriving

Yeah, I've gone back and forth on this too many times but I applied a test to myself on the way home...

"If I were sitting in {x color} car at a stoplight and then {y color} car rolls up next to me, would I regret it?" I paired colors against each other until I ended up with my original choice, Azurite Black.

A couple of pics (Azurite90M's M3):



Azurite Black is actually a very dark blue, rather than a black. It's similar to your previous Carbon Black that way, although it is more blue (than Carbon or Jerez Black). I got to see one in person.

p.s. I think I may go back to my original timeline for getting the car, if I can get a production slot soon.

You won't be buying just one colour with Jerez Black as you know different lighting shows off different colours. This would be a great choice

[2K7]

What a fantastic day despite the weather forecast being wrong once again!

It was so awesome and unbelievable to see so many ///M-thusiasts mingling in one place at the same time!

I counted a total of 53 cars at one point !!!!

Thanks to everyone who came out! It was really nice getting to meet the person behind their username. Unfortunately, I didn't get to chat with everyone so if you have questions about the OEM Bypass exhaust mod, please feel free to PM me.

To the folks who made videos. If you could please post them after getting consent from owners (if plates visible) that would be fantastic. I'm cool with posting videos that show my plates.

Here are some of the pics that were taken with my cam!


1) Towards the beginning as folks were rolling in.



2) Early on close up of a few members' cars.



3) More folks arriving .



4) Taken during peak attendance of the Meet N' Greet.



5) The beginning of lining up cars according to color.



6) The end product !!!!!



7) More M3s in line .....



8) Beauties getting their pictures taken ....



9) The entire line up from start to finish ....



10) From behind .....



11) And more ... from behind ....



12) Can't wait till the next time ....

[2K7]

Originally Posted by Gkap

Was a fantastic turnout. Lets do this again soon!