First drive

[Turkish]

Fair few of you lot will have had or will have a first drive in a spanking new car. I doubt many will ever have a first drive like this though.

American picks up his new BMW 335is up in Europe and has a nice run round the Alps before shipping it back to the US.

 

[mikey123]

That is some amazing footage! Must be a tasty camera!

 

[ado]

European delivery is a must IMO considering the car is cheaper and you get a holiday out of it.

 

[Englebert]

Cool! So would it be registered as an American car, because i thought that was handled by the dealer?

 

[Turkish]

Pretty sure European cars that are having a factory collection performed have a temporary plate on them until they get to the country they will be registered. Think of it as a trade plate kind of set up which is removed once it gets where it's going and the local dealer performs a second PDI of sorts and sets up all the electronic systems in the car to the its new home countries spec (think of things like units on trip computers being in miles or km etc things like that)

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Ah that brought back memories! Awesome roads

 

[Gaz.]

EPIC. Look how well surfaced the roads are out in the middle of nowhere. WTF is this country doing so wrong

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

But the actual road surface on the Stelvio Pass is awful! You can see it on that video too.

 

[Gaz.]

Looked better than round here.

 

[SamP]

Looked better than round here.

This.

 

[jon_r]

Great video, really enjoyed it. Yeah, the car is on temporary delivery plates, valid only for a certain amount of time.

 

[Gray]

Ah that brought back memories! Awesome roads

+10000000000000000000

 

[Christopher]

All that effort and it's not an M3.

 

[JD]

I can't see the video, but based on the above comments about delivery in Europe, temp plate then delivery to US of A... is it a LHD or RHD?

 

[Ian_182]

Nice way to pick up a new toy...

 

[Christopher]

I can't see the video, but based on the above comments about delivery in Europe, temp plate then delivery to US of A... is it a LHD or RHD?

LHD, obviously. Since Europe and the US are LHD. Duhhhh.

 

[JD]

LHD, obviously. Since Europe and the US are LHD. Duhhhh.

 

[Cliotoby]

Sweet, im insured to drive an 07' 335i and its pretty smooth to drive, power delivery is okay too, great engine note too.

 

[Matt.J]

Does anyone know what time of year that is? Are the roads normally that quiet out there?

Looks absolutely brilliant. I'd love to do that on the bike tbh. Like this guy, if anyone's interested ...

http://www.pashnit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27068

 

[adam172]

them roads!!!! :hail::hail::hail:

 

[Bluebeard]

EPIC. Look how well surfaced the roads are out in the middle of nowhere. WTF is this country doing so wrong

Funding students iirc.