[ScarecrowBoat]

Originally Posted by VintageBMW

As I recall, you receive a flat 7% off of base MSRP of the car (options not included for discount calculation) - that saved us about $4k. I viewed this as buying the car at about "invoice" or a little under. The vacation itself was not that expensive with the plane tickets being the priciest part - the best deal at the time was two tickets on KLM (a great airline by the way, as compared to American carriers) for $1,700 in late July 2009. Hotels, food, etc. were about another $2k and we had a blast!

Deeoooom! I'm probably going to be doing that!! That sounds awesome and my girlfriend loves the idea. I want to get a new F30 335i and do that...and I will probably throw a JB4 in my luggage before departing

[SoonerJohnInDallas]

Originally Posted by patrice03

he congrats, tell us more about mineral paint, is is grey classic, or as i have been told slightly blueish ?

It's hard to describe, Patrice. I don't see any blue in it though, and I think I'd notice it if it were there since I've never been a fan of blue cars. As you can see in the photos, it can look anything from almost sliver to charcoal depending on how the light is hitting it. I was a little concerned about having ordered it without seeing it in person, but I must say that it is a stunningly beautiful color in person!

[bananachipz]

Originally Posted by niceworkbavaria

Deeoooom! I'm probably going to be doing that!! That sounds awesome and my girlfriend loves the idea. I want to get a new F30 335i and do that...and I will probably throw a JB4 in my luggage before departing

JB4 hasn't been verified to work on the F30. I contacted Terry @ Burger Tuning, and he said "it's too soon"

[Anderw]

Congrats on the new car , Hope you enjoy your ED

[jtuds]

Originally Posted by niceworkbavaria

Deeoooom! I'm probably going to be doing that!! That sounds awesome and my girlfriend loves the idea. I want to get a new F30 335i and do that...and I will probably throw a JB4 in my luggage before departing

remember...when you come back to north america, you drop off your ca in germany then don't see it for 8 weeks...

[jtuds]

Originally Posted by SoonerJohnInDallas

It's hard to describe, Patrice. I don't see any blue in it though, and I think I'd notice it if it were there since I've never been a fan of blue cars. As you can see in the photos, it can look anything from almost sliver to charcoal depending on how the light is hitting it. I was a little concerned about having ordered it without seeing it in person, but I must say that it is a stunningly beautiful color in person!

its got me reconsidering my colour preference

[JulieDriving]

Congrats! Cool write-up and great looking car!

[Needsdecaf]

Nice car! Suggest you take a ride out to the Kelsteinhaus outside of Berchtesgarden. http://www.kehlsteinhaus.com/

Great area, great drive, great destination. You won't regret it!

[ede92]

Originally Posted by Needsdecaf

Nice car! Suggest you take a ride out to the Kelsteinhaus outside of Berchtesgarden. http://www.kehlsteinhaus.com/

Great area, great drive, great destination. You won't regret it!

It is striking from the top. A little hard to find unless you have European nav.

[shoptb]

Originally Posted by Needsdecaf

Nice car! Suggest you take a ride out to the Kelsteinhaus outside of Berchtesgarden. http://www.kehlsteinhaus.com/

Great area, great drive, great destination. You won't regret it!

Indeed. However, is the road opened for the year yet? I know they close it in late October for the winter.

[Fugly M3]

Summer ED is sooo cliche, props to doing winter ED. I've been thinking about how awesome a winter ED/european ski trip would be

[HappyG]

God I have to do a ED with my next BMW!

Great looking F30! Moar pics...

[SoonerJohnInDallas]

Originally Posted by shoptb

Indeed. However, is the road opened for the year yet? I know they close it in late October for the winter.

Originally Posted by Needsdecaf

Nice car! Suggest you take a ride out to the Kelsteinhaus outside of Berchtesgarden. http://www.kehlsteinhaus.com/

Great area, great drive, great destination. You won't regret it!

Looks great, but I think the possibility of bad roads is going to keep me away. I'm rolling on performance/summer tires, so making sure to avoid any chance of finding snow on the road.

[Pentium]

Congrats!!! good trip and great car!

[rmm0031]

Kelsteinhaus doesn't normally open till late April/early May. There are still some sweet mountain roads and views around Berchtesgaden and Obersalzburg.

Also check https://www.bmw-routes.com/ to see what other folks have found for touring about.

Lastly, I would highly recommend the Augustiner Keller Biergarten. A 12-15 minute walk from the main station along Arnulfstr.

[shoptb]

Originally Posted by rmm0031

Lastly, I would highly recommend the Augustiner Keller Biergarten. A 12-15 minute walk from the main station along Arnulfstr.

+1

[ebeem]

Nice sunny weather today...hope you are enjoying the roads and the early spring weather!

btw,if you are further interested in BMW cars other than the 3 Series you might want to take a look at the BMW dealership at Frankfurter Ring.
There are many special models,including Alpina and BMW Individual cars...plus the fact that around that dealership a lot of test cars yet to be released are driving around (saw that green Alpina B3 GT3 in that area yesterday)
Have fun!

Oh and ditch that Hofbräuhaus BS...only drunk tourists and Pseudo Bavarian athmosphere
better go to a nice Biergarten like the Seehaus in Englischer Garten...way more relaxed and with the sun out people are nice and friendly as well

[miko_10]

Awesome..thanks for posting.

[IancoleTX]

Congrats on your ED trip! Every true bimmerphile should try to do it once!

[richb811]

Congrats John! Looks like a blast

Hope you enjoy the F30!

[pcbrew]

Originally Posted by rmm0031

Also check https://www.bmw-routes.com/ to see what other folks have found for touring about.

Can you clarify what this is?

Seems like there is a feature called "Discover Routes" if you have Nav and BMW Connected Drive. Not sure if this works on US cars in Germany, but would, at minimum require Nav + BMW assist.

Also interesting is that this seems to indicate you can save a route to a USB stick and upload to the Nav system without Connected Drive.

Looks like you need to use this web interface to download to USB stick and it only supports Europe...

Even if the internet connection does not work on US cars, seems like the USB method could be used on US cars. Is there an English language version? Would be very cool to be able to use this on ED.

Transmission route.

From the Internet without detours directly into the navigation system.

Since 2008, BMW is the world's first automobile manufacturer to its customers the opportunity to own exclusive BMW Routes and comfortable routes to transfer to the vehicle.

Transmission of BMW Routes: Exclusively for BMW ConnectedDrive contract customers are all on this site "discover routes" under BMW routes shown in the vehicle for import via BMW Online. Select in the car a BMW route of your choice and some of the most beautiful regions of Europe, made ​​comfortable by the navigation system of your BMW.

Transmission routes of their own: their self-planned route, you can import save to a USB flash drive and from that into the navigation system of your BMW. BMW ConnectedDrive contract customers also have the opportunity to self-planned routes in the BMW Online portal and save it in the car import over the air of your BMW's navigation system. If you have added a picture of your route, or other information, it will be displayed in the vehicle.

The import of routes is an innovation from BMW ConnectedDrive and is available in all BMW models with special equipment "navigation system Professional 'and the latest generation of iDrive control system.

[logang]

Congrats... I'll check back every day for your pics.
I feel like a kid at Micky D waiting on my F30