BMW circa 2008 - Memories from Munich

"gin-san - shitpost specialist" (gin-san-) 10/29/2015 at 19:34 • Filed to: None

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Apologies (oppologies?) to you guys for making my first post about watches instead of cars. To be fair, I did post some poorly-exposed C7 Corvette photos that I took at the Renaissance center a year or two ago.

I wanted to post a few that I took in Germany back in 2008 - I was in Munich on the final few days of my European trip where I was visiting a friend of mine who was studying abroad for the year. In any case, I didn’t really know what I wanted to do in Munich (since my friend was about an hour away in Augsburg) but I was obsessed with my then-new Nikon D40 and went mad taking photos.

I thought visiting the old Olympic grounds would be interesting, and sure enough, there was a BMW display there (I don’t want to call it a museum because I didn’t see any classics, and if there were any, I fucking missed them and I hate myself for it).

To put things in perspective, when I arrived in Munich, this was the first memorable sight:

Bayern-Munchen (there’s some umlauts in there somewhere) had won a soccer something or other. Would it have been Euro 2008? In any case, this would never, ever have been allowed in Canada because public drinking. Europeans have it right - you can drink in public but don’t fuck with people. So that sets the timeframe - I was in Munich whenever this happened, whatever this event may have been.

I believe it was the next day that I went to the Olympic grounds and saw this in the distance:

See it? It’s in the right of this photo. Being a car nut, I obviously had to investigate this further. At best, I’d get to see a lot of cars and shoot more photos, at worst I’d be told to leave in a polite, but firm Teutonic manner.

It’s a pretty damn nice office building - my office building looks like a gigantic turd compared to this beauty.

So, I went inside this cool building - I believe it’s from here where I actually took the photos of the BMW office:

Inside this building is where all sorts of fun stuff was going on.

I really liked the Z4 from the beginning, even if this one came with the 2.5 six.

Not a big Cabrio fan, but still pretty sweet. If I lived somewhere that didn’t go to -40 degrees Celsius in the winter, I’d love to have one.

Opinions are mixed about the M6, but I thought it was cool - I certainly don’t think you could call it boring.

Wow, a Hydrogen 7. Looks exactly like a regular 7-series. Not suyre why I took these, but I guess I was fascinated by the fact that they even made a hydrogen fuelled car. For all we know it could very well have been a regular 7 with some special badging.

Now for the really hardcore porn - the insides of the M cars of the day (well, the M5/M6). Didn’t someone stuff this into a Lotus recently?

More innards, don’t know WTF they are or what they went into.

Now, 2008 was the year I started watching Formula 1, and it was only because I saw Lewis Hamilton set the fastest lap in the Reasonably Priced Car of the time. It was the casual depiction of his lap that made me laugh, and also made me wonder if he was good at racing F1 cars. Turns out he was pretty good. BMW Sauber was also a team I liked at the time, which is why I had to hide my erection when I saw this:

Note the absence of people - perhaps I didn’t hide my erection well enough.

I still love this livery and am saddened by the fact that Formula 1 will never have Robert Kubica back, but I had never seen a Formula 1 car (or even a mockup) in person. Looks like it was a 2007 car, but I could be wrong.

Looking back, I still have very fond memories of this trip, memories I’ll have for a lifetime, or at least until my harddrives and multiple backups of this are lost. There are so many other photos from this trip but I thought I’d post the most car-related ones.

On a final note, my last meal there was at the Hofbrauhaus (again, missing some umlauts) where after being full on beer and something else (I think I ate spaetzle but I honestly don’t remember anymore) I couldn’t turn down the buxom server who offered me this:

I fucking love pretzels. And boobies. Not sure which enticed me more at the time.

Hope you enjoyed this!

Nauraushaun > gin-san - shitpost specialist 10/30/2015 at 01:01

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There’s a Hofbrauhaus in Melbourne. It’s awesome and everyone I know is in love with it.

pip bip - choose Corrour > gin-san - shitpost specialist 10/30/2015 at 05:50

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great pics.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/30/2015 at 10:46

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Thanks! Some were okay, some I look back and know what I could have done better, but by that point in the trip I had owned the DSLR for 3 weeks, maximum.