Carolyn's and Tom's Trips to France from 2009 to 2015

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Finally -- a new car


Well, yesterday we screwed up on the date on the delivery of the car; today it was BMW.  We got to the factory at 8:45 am, early for a 9 am appointment and a 10 am car delivery, only to find that the car wasn't there (what happened to German efficiency?).  We could pick it up at 4:30 pm.  Not pleased.  But we went through an introduction to the car with an "associate."  And a fabulous factory tour -- more than two hours and we saw almost every part of the production -- from stamping to welding robots to painting to the assembly line.  Then a long lunch subsidized by BMW. We finally got the car at 3:30.  We think we like it, though the mixup was disconcerting and the color of green is lighter than we expected.  We had planned a trip outside of Munich this afternoon but it was too late in the day.  So we drove it to the hotel (10 minutes) and that was it.   Tomorrow we're off to Strassburg through the black forest. We're looking forward to running it through its paces, but must be careful, however -- for the first 1000 miles -- the "breakin period" -- we aren't supposed to go over 100 mph for extended periods of time.


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