BMW European Delivery: Amazing Photos from Germany

b.t.w....those wheels on the blue 3 series pictured above are possibly the best factory wheels on any car EVER. if anyone objects, please provide pics of better factory wheels.

— 1995e34 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 11:38:49 AM | | Votes: 2   

Are you Kidding me!?!? They look rather dated, bulky and boring.

These are the most beautiful wheels in my opinion

http://www.arnovillard.com/wp-content/uploads/Audi_S5_spoke/S5_spoke.jpg

— w209w114 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 11:50:52 AM | | Votes: -3   

those are nice.

— 1995e34 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 12:16:34 PM | | Votes: 3   

I agree 1995 those wheels rock, and i never see them because 90% of the 3 series on the road are 328xi's (i'm in the northeast)

— M35MT (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 12:44:03 PM | | Votes: 3   

I have those wheels on my 3. I love them do death. so beautiful. I love the fact that they are concave. It adds great weight and dimension to the body as well.

— dwatson (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 2:04:35 PM | | Votes: 3   

They look easy to clean which is always a huge plus.

— Agent004 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 3:50:21 PM | | Votes: 3   

The S5 wheels are my least favorite part of the car.

— CLK63BlackSeries (View Profile)

Posted on 5/15/2008 3:52:19 AM | | Votes: 1   

oh and the fact that you cant drive a left handed us spec car in japan you goof.

— xlr8 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 11:48:54 AM | | Votes: -3   

Beautiful.

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 11:53:10 AM | | Votes: 4   

xlr8

The British and the Japanese have got it all backwards ;-)

— w209w114 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 11:53:21 AM | | Votes: 6   

Michael Taylor,

You failed actually even understand my post. I never said Japan isnt a high tech nation, it is much more than that. From a poor agrarian military nation to an economic powerhouse and leading innovator in electronics all within the last 70 some years (Japan didnt have much going for it until after WWII) All thanks to our Western influences.

You simply can not compare Japan to Europe in terms of art, music, fashion, history, architecture, food, innovation and achievements. Maybe you should travel there one day and then we will talk.

— w209w114 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 12:05:15 PM | | Votes: 4   

i make fun of lexus all day long, but i'd LOVE to visit japan. i can eat my own body weight in sushi.

— 1995e34 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 12:20:52 PM | | Votes: 6   

YUMMMMM I love sushi! Speaking of which I'm just heading out to lunch ;-)

— w209w114 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 12:30:42 PM | | Votes: 5   

"You simply can not compare Japan to Europe in terms of art, music, fashion, history, architecture, food, innovation and achievements. Maybe you should travel there one day and then we will talk."

wow, you're a f***ing moron. How many World Cities does Germany have? Lets see:

New York
Tokyo
London
Paris

Looks like they're not there! Stop comparing a CONTINENT to a COUNTRY. Please, let me know the cultural significance of the following EUROPEAN countries:

Ukraine
Croatia
Belarus
Estonia
Bulgaria

Tokyo is the fashion capital of the east. They are the most technologically advanced city on the planet. Don't be a prick.

— M35MT (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 12:52:36 PM | | Votes: -8   

"You simply can not compare Japan to Europe in terms of art, music, fashion, history, architecture, food, innovation and achievements. Maybe you should travel there one day and then we will talk."

Wow, Someone is sure got offended here. World Cities include the following...

Alpha world cities
London, New York City, Paris, Tokyo, Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore

Beta world cities
San Francisco, Sydney, Toronto, Zürich, Brussels, Madrid, Mexico City, São Paulo, Moscow, Seoul

Gamma world cities

Amsterdam, Boston, Caracas, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Houston, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Osaka, Prague, Santiago, Taipei, Washington, D.C. Bangkok, Beijing, Montreal, Rome, Stockholm, Warsaw, Atlanta, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Miami, Minneapolis, Munich, Shanghai

I'll let the list speak for itself

Ukraine, Croatia, Belarus, Estonia, Bulgaria. Are all new countries and ex-soviet satellites. They are DEVELOPING nations. Culturally speaking they were once part of the Soviet Union, I'll let you do the research on them.

Im not the one being a prick here. Therefore I will not question you dubious level of knowledge on the topic at hand, much less resort to name calling. Hope you learned something today!

— w209w114 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 2:13:26 PM | | Votes: 4   

Germany has a number of world cities that are simply hardly mentioned. The most famous and important city would be Frankfurt followed by Berlin Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart.

Now stop these childish "My country is better than your country" arguments.

— Bill (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 3:16:08 PM | | Votes: 4   

An attempt to define and categorise world cities was made in 1999 by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC), based primarily at Loughborough University in the UK. The roster was outlined in the GaWC Research Bulletin 5[4] and ranked cities based on provision of "advanced producer services" such as accountancy, advertising, finance and law, by international corporations. The GaWC inventory identifies three levels of world cities and several sub-ranks.

Note that this roster generally denotes cities in which there are offices of certain multinational companies providing financial and consulting services rather than other cultural, political, and economic centres. There is a schematic map of GaWC cities at their website.[6]

Alpha world cities / full service world cities[7]

12 points: London, New York City, Paris, Tokyo
10 points: Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Singapore

The problem with your post was a blatant attack on Japan, because you hate their cars, (more cliche on this site that bandwagon jumping red sox fans in boston) Read above for the distinction between the top 4 alpha world cities.

I expect negative response.

— M35MT (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 4:07:27 PM | | Votes: -3   

M35T

Like Bill said.. "Germany has a number of world cities... The most famous and important city would be Frankfurt followed by Berlin Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart"

Japan only has 1 world city. I dont know why we are still debating this. You need to get over it

— w209w114 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/15/2008 10:53:10 AM | | Votes: 4   

the early 90's 5 series?

— 1995e34 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 12:21:54 PM | | Votes: 0   

Obviously, some of you haven't visited Berlin. This is one remarkable and top alpha global metropolis in every respect. Frankfurt has nothing on Berlin:

So, alpha cities:

London, NYC, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Tokoyo, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong

Depends what your definition is of alpha city: One can easily say Vienna and Munich should be on the list not to mention Prague, Madrid, Moscow, Bejing, Tapai, and others.

— VISO (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 4:48:50 PM | | Votes: 3   

Germany has won a total of 63 Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics. Japan has won only 9 Nobel Prizes in the same categories.


Nobel Prize for Physics

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0105785.html


Nobel Prizes for Chemistry

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0105786.html


Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0105787.html


Nobel Prize for Economic Science

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0105788.html

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 1:10:01 PM | | Votes: 6   

German culture allows for greater innovation. This is why you have a higher level of nobel prize winners than Japan. Japan's culture frowns on individualism something Germans, like Americans, is part of national culture.

— VISO (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 4:53:10 PM | | Votes: 2   

Yea 001, I think evilm's time is up. He needs to be deleted. And EL34 should be on thin ice

— 0to60 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 1:04:02 PM | | Votes: -2   

Yea evilm, thats it, you are on to me... darn! I am jealous because I cant be an idiot like you!

— 0to60 (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 3:47:41 PM | | Votes: 0   

I recently found about about Arri as well. A shame the article on Wikipedia isn't very detailed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arri

— Bill (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 3:18:16 PM | | Votes: 1   

TurboSpyder:
"Germany has won a total of 63 Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics. Japan has won only 9 Nobel Prizes in the same categories."

I really don`t know why you always comparing japan and german nobel prizes and saying that this is why german cars are better . compare US and german nobel prizes and you`ll find that US cars are better than German . is this true ?

"Germany doesn't have a lot of natural resources but they're still the world's largest exporting nation so what do you think they're exporting?"

japan has even less natural resources .

"It's not consumer electronics stuff that you see every day but more like machine tools and printing presses etc. For example, I learned recently that a most of the big-budget movies made in the world are filmed with cameras made by the German company, Arri. I was surprised because I just assumed that because Japan dominates in the consumer camera market that they probably also dominated in the high-end movie camera market.German companies have also won Oscars for their sophisticated technical effects software programs."

if some japanese company is exporting more high-end cameras or something different than german company I predict you would then say as you used to that japanese stuff is copy or upgrade becouse germany has more nobel prize winners or something another . Rolex dominated high-end watches . are they doing the most advanced watches ? in germany companies have been working peoples from whole europe(or world)(e.g. Béla Barényi-early safety innovations in mercedes) like in US e.g. microsoft , IBM(e.g. leo esaki) . in japanese companies I think mostly are working japanese becouse who other know their language - so this is normal that some stuff is better from germany than japan . but of course in your opinion all german cars are better than japanese becouse of some high-end cameras or export .
"World trade's quiet achiever is Germany ... From high-speed trains for China" - japanese high-speed trains shinkansen - During the Shinkansen's 40-year, 6 billion passenger history, there have been no passenger fatalities due to derailments or collisions (including earthquakes and typhoons). so are they good or no? even if they`re not exported .

— abcd (View Profile)

Posted on 5/15/2008 11:50:28 AM | | Votes: 1   

You know, I was just there four months ago and I'm going there again for Oktoberfest. Take your German-hating somewhere else, troll.

I've also been to Japan and loved it there.

— Bill (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 3:19:12 PM | | Votes: 8   

I don't have Germany pal, despite my reservations of BMWs. They invented the first 4 wheeled automobile after all :)

— sector (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 3:46:54 PM | | Votes: -4   

Not only would I love to go back to Munich, I would love to live there...or many other wonderful places in Germany (like Freiburg!). Great country, and anyone should go visit and tour it. The rail system is superb and you can cover alot of ground in a week or two.

All this racial and international hatred allowed by autospies is bullcrap.

Every country has its good and its bad. If you don't believe that, you have no clue how the world really is and you should consider gettingout of your region to experience it.

— 09CTSVforMe (View Profile)

Posted on 5/15/2008 9:10:19 AM | | Votes: 1   

Forget the BMW...save all the money you'd spend on the badge and just take a killer vacation!

— 09CTSVforMe (View Profile)

Posted on 5/15/2008 9:12:05 AM | | Votes: 1   

Yeah, and the Mona Lisa could use a nice update with pastel colors.

— 09CTSVforMe (View Profile)

Posted on 5/15/2008 9:13:28 AM | | Votes: 2   

nah, if BMW gives you a hard on, then you're gay :)

— sector (View Profile)

Posted on 5/14/2008 9:44:17 PM | | Votes: 2   

Yeah well my Dad's cooler than your Dad...

— Kinger (View Profile)

Posted on 5/15/2008 8:00:56 AM | | Votes: 2   

sorry for twice

— abcd (View Profile)

Posted on 5/15/2008 11:57:25 AM | | Votes: 1   

abcd, can I ask you what your nationality/ethnicity is? Germany, like all western European countries, has been making great contributions to math, science and engineering for centuries - well before there were many foreigners there. In fact, if you look at the details of the PISA international student assessment tests, you'll see that the immigrants there drag Germany's average PISA results down considerably (just a fact).

— TurboSpyder (View Profile)

Posted on 5/15/2008 12:54:36 PM | | Votes: 1   

TurboSpyder:
"abcd, can I ask you what your nationality/ethnicity is?"
middle-east europe country (near germany)
"Germany, like all western European countries, has been making great contributions to math, science and engineering for centuries -"
germany and other western european countries have been making great contributions to science since about 15-16`s century(renaissance) well after south-eastern greeks , when germans then... well , they haven`t even country . and egyptians , chineses - but majority of egyptians and chineses knowledge disappeared . japan started making contributions in 20`s century becouse previous they were isolated and lived in small groups . of course you`ll say that they only basing on german science or something another . germans basing also when do something new . indians have been basing also for a long time and can only do miserable tata cars , and lots of medical mans of course .
"well before there were many foreigners there. In fact, if you look at the details of the PISA international student assessment tests, you'll see that the immigrants there drag Germany's average PISA results down considerably"
i`m not saying about imigrants from poorer countries e.g. i hear many turkish are there . in german companies have been working many great engineers from whole europe e.g.Béla Barényi - without him mercedes wouldn`t "be" where it "is" now .
you don`t need to excuse me german`s average PISA result becouse this is only avarage but it`s nice to know that something like PISA exist - i never before have heard about PISA .

— abcd (View Profile)

Posted on 5/15/2008 5:01:46 PM | | Votes: 1