Webclips 32

Hello,
Welcome to this months Webclips…start as you mean to go on…. with some fantastic sights and sounds of an M1 Pro Car…. http://bit.ly/18iz9VE and to follow that we have a review of all 4 of the M3 generations http://bit.ly/111lA5h

How about some Aston Martin goodness…..the CC100 concept, Aston Martin is celebrating it’s centenary this year and has created the CC100 in celebration of this fact… http://bit.ly/13VscTC

How about a parade of Jaguar’s? Not just a parade of any old Jag’s but a parade of Jags including three XK 120s with people like Sir Chris Hoy and Andy Wallace, Daniel Day Lewis and Jim Gianopulos and David Gandy and Yasmin Le Bon. All taking part in the  2013 Mille Miglia .The parade also included three C-Type sports cars with Jaguar regional director for Europe Bernard Kuhnt and actress Hannah Herzsprung piloting one, Alex Buncombe with Chris Harris another, and Salvatore Ferragamo Jr. alongside Michael Quinn -- the grandson of Jaguar founder Sir William Lyons who drove the final car. http://bit.ly/138OjHo

How Mike Conway survived this I’ll never know…. massive crash at Indianapolis: http://bit.ly/ZmcAw8

When I was younger (much younger!) I used to go and watch the Thunder Saloons at Mallory Park, they were noisy, fast and brutal, here’s some coverage from Oulton Park (I think) http://bit.ly/ZmcIvQ

I think we may have had this one before, but what the heck! It’s good…40 years of M….some great video clips http://bit.ly/18jbKDi

This ones a bit strange, apparently BMW got a driver to run over sheets of paper whilst spraying ink on the tyres for a promotional campaign…weird….you judge http://bit.ly/Z8mFKX

Ah yes, back to my favourite subject…HOONIGAN…here’s some coverage of Ken Block in a race completely ignoring the fact that his car is on fire! http://bit.ly/YSbEwv and whilst we are at it how about a 1000 frames per second tyre blowout http://bit.ly/11oqMVL

This is a great video, the US Navy Blue Angels set to music, some great manoeuvres in there: http://bit.ly/10yFO6y it’s serious aerobatics! The music is a bit cooler on the second video: http://bit.ly/18s3kar

Remember the Nissan Delta Wing? Here’s Chris Harris test-driving and reviewing it http://bit.ly/10yIyAI

And finally here’s an old BMW training video for the E31 850i http://bit.ly/112Hbxh The video is from 1989 which precedes the introduction of the 850i in 1990. The video features two members of the BMW GmbH board of directors - Director of Research & Development, Dr. Wolfgang Reitzle & Director of Sales, Dr. Robert Buchelhofer.

To see all the webclips links on-line please visit the blog http://bmwccgb.blogspot.com/ if you go top the clubs main web page and click on the orange “B” you should find the Webclips.

I could really do with some help in finding interesting stuff on the internet so please do email me with your ideas for links I can include in future editions of Webclips.  We also have our own video channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/BMWCCGB and our photos on flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bmwccgb/. Also, don’t forget that we now have a Facebook page here: http://on.fb.me/xIqqnq , Twitter account (@BMWCCGB) and a blog www.bmwccgb.blogspot.com please take a look and get involved!

Please send me links to any interesting items you find on your travels around the interwebs and I'll see if we can get it mentioned here in a future edition of the magazine.

Have fun and be safe on the interwebs!

Webclips 31

Hello,
Welcome to this months Webclips, let’s start with a really great short movie directed by Guy Ritchie called simply “Star”, it’s from a series of short films sponsored by BMW and, in my opinion, this is the best one, enjoy: http://bit.ly/15ORVmz there is lots of information about the series on Wikipedia here: http://bit.ly/10jsbXd

For completeness, here are links to the other films:

Ambush: http://bit.ly/Z3WwK9

Chosen: http://bit.ly/12PkHjX

The Follow: http://bit.ly/ZDdeon

Powder Keg: http://bit.ly/14YvITs

Hostage: http://bit.ly/ZO4cDD

Ticker: http://bit.ly/14qNcat

Beat the Devil: http://bit.ly/ZTJ6AD

All were directed by famous directors such as Guy Ritchie, Tony Scott, John Frankenheimer, John Woo amongst others, the driver is Clive Owen.

There were also 4 smaller movies, "The Subplot Movies", that were shot and directed by Ben Younger. These were designed to fill in the gaps between the five films and featured a man who appeared to be tracking the Driver, They appear to have no real connection to the movies at all and make no real sense, however, they contained clues that were part of an alternative reality game that could lead fans to a party in Las Vegas.

Up next is something we haven’t featured for a while, it’s a “build” thread, in this case it’s an E34 M5, http://bit.ly/15OUllf and as you will see, a very thorough job…

Here’s one of my usual entries, some great rallying action:  http://bit.ly/183E6zW

Here’s a nice little story about Nick Parente and his E30 which is his first car. The story begins in July of 2012 when he purchased the car, it was in a pretty bad way, it was in desperate need of paint and body-work as well as exhaust, suspension and a rebuilt cylinder head, None of these issues or the many that followed stopped the transition from a once-faded BMW with panels in three different colours to an incredibly clean example of BMW's first AWD production car: http://bit.ly/12Pm9CI

One final video, taken at the BMW Vintage show in Saratoga Springs, New York. The event was held on the grounds of the Saratoga Automobile Museum, and they attracted some very noce looking, and very rare BMWs: http://bit.ly/14YzDzO

To see all the webclips links on-line please visit the blog http://bmwccgb.blogspot.com/ if you go top the clubs main web page and click on the orange “B” you should find the Webclips.

I could really do with some help in finding interesting stuff on the internet so please do email me with your ideas for links I can include in future editions of Webclips.  We also have our own video channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/BMWCCGB and our photos on flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bmwccgb/. Also, don’t forget that we now have a Facebook page here: http://on.fb.me/xIqqnq , Twitter account (@BMWCCGB) and a blog www.bmwccgb.blogspot.com please take a look and get involved!

Please send me links to any interesting items you find on your travels around the interwebs and I'll see if we can get it mentioned here in a future edition of the magazine.

Have fun and be safe on the interwebs!

Webclips 30

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Welcome to this months Webclips, let’s start with some 320iS goodness……Patrick Orth going for a quick time….great sounds and it does look really fast! http://bit.ly/YLwUVa

Here’s a great video from Petrolicious about the Targa California, it’s all about experiencing the back roads of Central California in vintage cars (1975 and older). It’s an homage to the original Targa Florio race in Sicily, its non-competitive 3-day vintage rally. There are Porsche 356's, Alfa Romeos, BMW 2002's plus many many more: http://vimeo.com/50545152

Next a short video by BMW about the various sounds made by a car, everything from the exhaust to the “lights left on” sound…… http://bit.ly/16aVO0w

Here’s a video from The Smoking Tyre about a bunch of cars supercharged by VF Engineering, it includes an E92 M3 with 620 BHP, Matt Farrah reviews them all: http://bit.ly/14xFUAU

Here’s a series of video’s from “Live and Let Drive” part 1: When Chris Harris Meets Alex Roy, I’m sure you’ll enjoy these, once you see the first one you’ll want to see the others (links are on the page): http://bit.ly/16pJOKG

Here’s a bit more Chris Harris with his 325 on the Wye Dean Rally: http://bit.ly/123Lirn and here’s what happened on their first test day: http://bit.ly/XwbA75

If you like the sound of a six cylinder BMW the chances are you’ll love this next video, it’s a tribute to the Audi S1, you know, the one that did rather well on the Pike Peak hill climb a few years ago, fantastic sounds: http://bit.ly/YooFP3

Oh, OK then, here’s one we’ve had before, Patrick Snijers on the Isle of Man a good few years ago now: http://bit.ly/14G3PyH

Not really a “Webclips” thing but I found this survey very interesting, the SMMT have put together the 2013 Motor Industry facts book, their study records the detail of each of the 35,760,901 cars, vans, trucks, buses and coaches on the UK’s roads at this time. It’s a fascinating read, the PDF of the report can be found here: http://bit.ly/YUFZhl

OK, so this last one is a bit strange…it’s a BMW advert that was run in South Africa for the M535i, eschewing the benefits of fuel injection over carburettors, however, the way they did it is a little strange: http://bit.ly/YTBlKr

To see all the webclips links on-line please visit the blog http://bmwccgb.blogspot.com/ if you go top the clubs main web page and click on the orange “B” you should find the Webclips.

I could really do with some help in finding interesting stuff on the internet so please do email me with your ideas for links I can include in future editions of Webclips.  We also have our own video channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/BMWCCGB and our photos on flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bmwccgb/. Also, don’t forget that we now have a Facebook page here: http://on.fb.me/xIqqnq , Twitter account (@BMWCCGB) and a blog www.bmwccgb.blogspot.com please take a look and get involved!

Please send me links to any interesting items you find on your travels around the interwebs and I'll see if we can get it mentioned here in a future edition of the magazine.

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Webclips 29

Hello,
Welcome to webclips, how about a trip down under to start, down to Bathurst 1985 to watch Roberto Ravaglia and Johnny Cecotto in the “Orange Bob Jane” car up against Kent Baigent  and Neal Lowe in the white car”: http://bit.ly/15XTT2e

Next up is Ryan Tuerck drifting his Toyota 1JZ engined car up a deserted mountain road, not everyones sup of tea but I quite like it, and you have to admit it takes some skill behind the wheel…  http://bit.ly/Wy5xd8

How about a motorcycle with a single wheel? I know, I thought it sounded mad too but when I watched the video I was amazed! This guy built this “contraption” based on a drawing his daughter showed him, the ingenuity is brilliant: http://bit.ly/XJ6UZZ

My top favourite is of course the E30, so here’s a bit of  the Tour de corse from 1992 with Patrick Bernardini, enjoy.. http://bit.ly/YFBvDG

Let’s get corporate for a minute or two with a video from BMW Performance, is it just me or do you also find the BMW narrator’s voice very “mechanical”?  You can find out more about the parts here:  http://www.bmw-mperformanceparts.com, anyway, here’s the video: http://bit.ly/YIQCi7

This one is a must see, it’s an inside view of the F30 3 series production facility, it just goes to show how few workers there are now in a production facility like this, many years ago when I worked at Jaguar cars an assembly line like the one seen in this video would be absolutely crawling with people….. http://bit.ly/XgKtf3

Another favourite of mine is Ken Block, normally he is seen on his own doing amazing things, spinning wheels and burning rubber, but how about Ken in a race? Well, this guy is committed (or should be!), just watch what he does when his car catches fire mid race… http://bit.ly/YSbEwv

Here’s a great video about a 2002, a channel called “Depth of Speed” went in search and found a beautiful Inka Orange edition, great video: http://bit.ly/VlcBxI

And finally, the crowds leaving Wembley…. http://bit.ly/YSaam1

To see all the webclips links on-line please visit the blog http://bmwccgb.blogspot.com/ if you go top the clubs main web page and click on the orange “B” you should find the webclips.

I could really do with some help in finding interesting stuff on the internet so please do email me with your ideas for links I can include in future editions of WebClips.  We also have our own video channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/BMWCCGB and our photos on flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bmwccgb/. Also, don’t forget that we now have a Facebook page here: http://on.fb.me/xIqqnq , Twitter account (@BMWCCGB) and a blog www.bmwccgb.blogspot.com please take a look and get involved!

Please send me links to any interesting items you find on your travels around the interwebs and I'll see if we can get it mentioned here in a future edition of the magazine.

Have fun and be safe on the interwebs!