ASIAN KING setting sale March 10th, all aboard!!

matt_435xi · 03-06-2012, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Junction17

...and who knows? While the boat might get here soon, Southampton is a long way from the south of Scotland. Not far by US standards, but these are British roads we are talking about, and UK lorry drivers. It could be June before I'm driving my car!

not to mention you guys drive on the wrong side of the road.

best of luck, and keep us informed.

Junction17 · 03-06-2012, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by matt_335Ci

not to mention you guys drive on the wrong side of the road.

best of luck, and keep us informed.

Nah I'm sure we invented driving before we invented America. It's you lot that are wrong. The Japanese, the australians (who we still own) and us here in the UK can't be wrong. Although, it has to be said, using idrive with your left hand isn't as instinctive as using your proper hand could be.

I'll might bug my dealer tomorrow and ask him what status my car is at. For some reason BMW don't provide that internet facility to us in the UK. I think they don't trust us. It's on a need to know basis.

Will let you know how it goes. Cheers. :-)

bl@ster · 03-07-2012, 01:46 AM

LOL, I love how fast they're driving in that video and the over the top music.

MacAttackBMW · 03-07-2012, 02:05 AM

Perhaps it's just me, but when I think of my car being loaded on the boat I wonder who that German dude is that drove it. Much like when I buy a sweater and it has a little sticker inside that tells me that 'Inspector 6' checked it out, it would be nice to get a little note that said that 'Franz drove your car onto the boat'... just saying it would be a nice touch BMW! Maybe even a picture

svache · 03-07-2012, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by matt_335Ci

unless of course I find out on Saturday that I as am still waiting at the dock.

I have mixed feelings about this.. either way, I would cry about it.. just not sure if they would be tears of sadness or of laughter

jk

Btw, I'm not so sure the Asian King is a RoRo ship..

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Originally Posted by Junction17

Nah I'm sure we invented driving before we invented America. It's you lot that are wrong. The Japanese, the australians (who we still own) and us here in the UK can't be wrong. Although, it has to be said, using idrive with your left hand isn't as instinctive as using your proper hand could be.

Nah, you guys think we're wrong, but in fact we realized many, many years ago we were actually right (it's the right side anyhow lol). You guys just didn't realize it yet

And then we have the Belgians who currently drive on the right side but will start driving on the left side soon. First they will try to do this with trucks and if that goes well, the rest of the traffic will follow

(little disclaimer: in case anyone from Belgium is reading this, I'm Dutch myself so you should know where this is coming from

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Originally Posted by MacAttackBMW

it would be nice to get a little note that said that 'Franz drove your car onto the boat'...

But... I don't want Franz to drive my car.. I mean, he drives an Audio himself

MacAttackBMW · 03-07-2012, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by svache

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Originally Posted by matt_335Ci

unless of course I find out on Saturday that I as am still waiting at the dock.

I have mixed feelings about this.. either way, I would cry about it.. just not sure if they would be tears of sadness or of laughter

jk

Btw, I'm not so sure the Asian King is a RoRo ship..

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Originally Posted by Junction17

Nah I'm sure we invented driving before we invented America. It's you lot that are wrong. The Japanese, the australians (who we still own) and us here in the UK can't be wrong. Although, it has to be said, using idrive with your left hand isn't as instinctive as using your proper hand could be.

Nah, you guys think we're wrong, but in fact we realized many, many years ago we were actually right (it's the right side anyhow lol). You guys just didn't realize it yet

And then we have the Belgians who currently drive on the right side but will start driving on the left side soon. First they will try to do this with trucks and if that goes well, the rest of the traffic will follow

(little disclaimer: in case anyone from Belgium is reading this, I'm Dutch myself so you should know where this is coming from

).

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Originally Posted by MacAttackBMW

it would be nice to get a little note that said that 'Franz drove your car onto the boat'...

But... I don't want Franz to drive my car.. I mean, he drives an Audio himself

Knowing Franz drove my car is sort of just about knowing the worst case scenario so everything from here is looking up

svache · 03-07-2012, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by MacAttackBMW

Knowing Franz drove my car is sort of just about knowing the worst case scenario so everything from here is looking up

lol I love how you see it as a positive thing

Weaselboy · 03-07-2012, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Junction17

Nah I'm sure we invented driving before we invented America. It's you lot that are wrong. The Japanese, the australians (who we still own) and us here in the UK can't be wrong. Although, it has to be said, using idrive with your left hand isn't as instinctive as using your proper hand could be.

Oh boy...

Welcome to the thread!

Junction17 · 03-08-2012, 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Weaselboy

Oh boy...

Welcome to the thread!

Hi weasel boy...there's no argument there! Ten minutes watching our national soccer team and you'd be ready to slash your wrists....but I'm drifting off topic!!

Maybe when our BMWs are delivered and you switch on your idrive for the first time, a set for film style credits appears, telling you who did what with your car so far and actually give you the phone number of the guy who loaded your car onto the boat (franz) so you can invite him round for tea?!

As for driving on the wrong side of the road, it's the main reason why Argentina want the falklands back, so that they have somewhere they can drive properly again!

matt_435xi · 03-08-2012, 10:12 PM

hold on to your hats, the KING is on his way!!

svache · 03-09-2012, 02:56 AM

Watch out for that red ship in front of you! You almost hit it! lol

PrinceBarin · 03-09-2012, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by svache

Watch out for that red ship in front of you! You almost hit it! lol

Don't worry. The ship is fitted with active cruise control and lane departure warning.

svache · 03-09-2012, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by PrinceBarin

Don't worry. The ship is fitted with active cruise control and lane departure warning.

nice one!

Weaselboy · 03-09-2012, 08:51 AM

Four hours to port!

Weaselboy · 03-09-2012, 04:25 PM

Honey... I'm hooooome!

matt_435xi · 03-09-2012, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Weaselboy

Honey... I'm hooooome!

Now let's just hope we get on board!

matt_435xi · 03-09-2012, 09:06 PM

the internet is amazing! i think i see my F30 sport, if you look closely at the lot of cars i am the 7th row, 15 cars to the left, right above the Melbourne Red one.

Weaselboy · 03-10-2012, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by matt_335Ci

the internet is amazing! i think i see my F30 sport, if you look closely at the lot of cars i am the 7th row, 15 cars to the left, right above the Melbourne Red one.

Yes... yes... if I squint, I can just see it.

Weaselboy · 03-10-2012, 10:42 AM

...and away we go!

(If our cars are not on this ship, we need to change the thread title to "Losers with too much free time"

)

CE750Jockey · 03-10-2012, 12:20 PM

Bad news fellas, Captain Schettino just called.......from the Asian King!

Weaselboy · 03-10-2012, 12:56 PM

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Bad news fellas, Captain Schettino just called.......from the Asian King!

Uh oh.

matt_435xi · 03-10-2012, 03:07 PM

I just contacted my CA and he said I am still at port and my F30 missed the ASIAN KING.

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