My friend Ben Smith clearly is. He had a rummage around in his yard and found this: That’s an S50B32, or for those of you who don’t speak in code, the 3.2 litre 321bhp engine from a BMW M3 Evolution. Which is handy, because Ben also has one of these with a dead engine. We […] Read more »
A great day out today! Together with Andy Eccles, Adam Tier, Olly Bloxham and Paul Young I hired a small sprint circuit in the Midlands for a morning of ‘testing’ and photography. This is something I tend to do around this time of year, mainly because it’s nearly always damp or cold enough for a […] Read more »
Today the weather has been mild and dry, so I’ve seized the opportunity to get things done. I cycled (yes, cycled!) to Vines of Guildford to collect all sorts of goodies: for the 330d a new leather lift strap for the boot floor and an oil filter kit, and a new thermostat and coolant for […] Read more »
I’ve been thinking for a while about the various car blogs I run, and how it’d be useful to blend them all into one. Following on from some inspirational use ofย WordPress by my colleague Brenden, I was convinced that’s the way forward, so here’s the result! As and when I get the time I’ll […] Read more »
This weather is getting on my tits! There are a couple of small jobs I want to get done on the five, but it looks like they’ll keep waiting. As promised in my last blog post I did eventually have the car washed, but I chose to let the local hand wash place do it. […] Read more »
Yesterday Diane & I took the tractor to South Wales to catch some views of the World Rally Championship. We got very close to the action to say the least – here are Loeb and Sordo’s cars photographed from inside the 330d! And in fact, it would appear that Diane managed to photograph five times […] Read more »
I took Diane and a couple of friends to see the Tempest Rally yesterday, and then went on to a bonfire night and fireworks celebration. The rallying part of the day involved plenty of M5 excursions up muddy lane to find suitable spectator points in the forest; the car generally being used as a comfy […] Read more »
Nothing much has been reported over the last couple of weeks and that’s a good thing. I’ve not used the car a huge amount – probably only done 100 miles in that time, but they’ve all been good, balls out, V8 barking, smile inducing miles. So far then, so good. Also – see how forward […] Read more »
The super saloon appeared for the first time in BMW Car Magazine today. It’ll be featuring regularly there as part of their long term fleet. Of course, if you read this blog you’ll already be ahead of the M5 news, but there’s loads of other great content within that magazine’s pages, including another M5 in […] Read more »
Having managed a 10km run in just over 50 minutes this morning, I had planned to lard around the house for the afternoon. However, the weather was just too good to ignore, so I decided to go and play with the cars for the afternoon. I’ve decided that the badge on the back of the […] Read more »