BMW Ultimate Drive Day

We drove 8 loops in seven dif­fer­ent cars for a total of 113.6 dol­lars raised to help fight breast cancer.

1. M3 Coupe
2. X3 3.0i
3. 650i Coupe
4. Z4 3.0i
5. 528xi Sedan
6. Z4 3.0i
7. 750Li
8. 535xi Sport Wagon

There were a few sur­prises for us today. Two of the avail­able cars actu­ally had man­ual trans­mis­sions. One of the cars that had a man­ual trans­mis­sion was the M3 Coupe. It was not on the reser­va­tion form, but once there they put you on a list (if you were over thirty, sorry Ian), and when your turn came…woohoo. The other stick shift was a Z4 3.0si, which we didn’t end up driving.There were no 1 Series or no X6 to drive (the sig­na­ture car was an X6.) Both of these vehi­cles are sup­posed to join the fleet at the end of the month.

The biggest sur­prise was they held a survivor’s lap at 12:30 that lined up every car with a breast can­cer sur­vivor in it and was given a police escort around the course. Good for them, but they should have done it first thing in the morn­ing, because it took a two hour chunk of time out of the mid­dle of the day. Good thing we had the whole day off from work and didn’t do just an after­noon off or we would have only got in two laps.

Raw gallery is up here: BMW Ulti­mate Drive 2008. Cap­tions will come later.

I’ll write more about the expe­ri­ence later this week too.