If you’re paying attention, you’ll see that Ferrari has a new mid-engine car coming-the 458 Italia. What a looker!! There’s been nothing like this since the 355. I’m sorry but the 360 and the 430 just don’t make it. Anyway, now everybody has a mid-engine super car on the market accept good ole [...]

This last weekend, I added an extra day and spent three days cruising the Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico Rocky Mountains. The wather this summer in the Rockies has been the best in 25 years. Cooler days, green like Ireland and for us not a bit of rain. We cruised down from Denver to [...]

A note on the hard case luggage. I learned this the hard way. You CAN lock the cases on the bike without them being totally secured. I had thought I locked the cases on. But when I took off the right side case literally flew off. Apparently, I had not completely [...]

In his work of short stories, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Rhoald Dahl tells a great story about a BMW.
The story is called “The Hitch-hiker”
Here is a summary taken from Wikipedia, but I have read the story and it is brilliant.
“This is another fictional first person narrative. The narrator in this case [...]

It appears the Germans are covering all the bases. Diesel has been a big thing in Europe and world wide for some time. Now we’re starting to see them more in the USA. But along with the diesel is coming hybrid. So it appears that BMW and all the other German builders are [...]

BMW GINA Light Visionary Model
This is pretty cool, the material that they came up with.

There is something really different about the new Z-4, but I can’t quit put my finger on it. It looks the same, but different. What would be nice is to see a comparison of the first generation Z-4 along side the current 2009 Z-4. I know that there are many styling differneces but [...]

I’ve been on a few BMW motorcycles, but my favorite is the old K75S. It had a couple of short comings,but, in general it was an all-around great ride. In the years I owned it, 10, I had only 13,000 miles. But they were all long distance rides. The best was up the [...]

My step dad was, and is, a BMW guy. Growing up, I remember we had a garage full of BMW’s and old Ferraris. He kept them all in mint condition and he would assiduously wash each one of them each weekend. I can still remember the smell of the old ones, that gasoline and oil [...]

I bought my 1976 silver/blue 2002tii in Chicago for about $5000. I was 27. It was in good shape, fast, and I tore around Chicago’s torn up and potholed streets for a least a year. I took care of it but worried about it endlessly. It was a little fragile in general. [...]

When I was first starting out in the securties business, I really needed a better car. I was 33 at the time and had owned 3 BMWs by then. But I had been stranded with an old Subaru station wagon on its last legs. So the hunt began. I checked the classfied everday with very [...]