I had an interesting experience in my late model BMW the other day. It is a 2002 E46 M3 that I've owned and daily driven for a few years now (purchased used from a family friend) and I've got to set up the scene for our readers...and then ask a few questions. It seems like a simple thing, but I had to drive the M3 at 55 MPH for 15 uninterrupted minutes on a SoCal freeway. It was a excruciating and humbling experience.
I've been getting my inbox bombarded with notes from random faceless corporations telling me they've got a plan for this COVID-19 thing...so I feel like DT should make some official statement to the affect that we are canceling our Cars & Coughy meetings and minimizing co-sleeping in the office. Yes. Official and authoritative...we are asking our employees to work from home and we are implementing strict guidelines to minimize the affect on our employees and our bottom line while keeping our customers...uggg..I can't keep a straight face...
Okay, it is Friday, time for a Coffee Brake. The question of the day is: What did you drive today, how many miles, and did you enjoy it?
I've got some non-car related stuff this weekend but I also need to sort some stuff on the Mustang that lives in my garage...but enough about me...what are you doing this weekend?
Last week I spent, um... yeesh, about 20 hours in transit for a 3 hour meeting in Munich. By the time you add up the 3-hours it should have taken to get to Edinburgh, then the extra couple of hours it *did* take due to all the construction, plus waiting around in the airport twice, 5 hours in the air, taxi and S-Bahn rides, bit of walking, and then the convenient but mediocre hotels, it's not glamorous jet-setting by any stretch. That said, there were a couple of highlights, things Munich is famous for and didn't disappoint: cars and food.
I will spend most of this next weekend on a soccer field coaching my daughter's team and refereeing other matches, but I'm sure you guys have projects to do...so let me live vicariously through your garage work!
DT E-i-C Vince: I'd like to apologize for the light postings this week because I've been travelling for work, but I'll try and make up for it with this next little nugget of a Coffee Brake mystery quiz. This is an extraordinary little building in the center of the image (click to make it larger) but I'd like you guys to tell my why it is so interesting.
Happy Friday -- time for another Coffee Brake and today I'd like to open the discussion to the readers with a simple question. Did you get your automotive goals accomplished this summer?
It doesn't matter what they call it...the Monterey Historics, the Rolex Motorsports Reunion, the Laguna Seca Monster Jam or the Bay Area Histrionics -- this is the ultimate car show. It starts with the dirt parking lot, that is this ridiculous collection of million dollar exotics and classics parked on mole hits, and continues to the track that is alive with the sounds of classic combustion. See the full photo album here.
Time for DT's Coffee Brake, a break from the mundane, by Editor Vince: A few weeks ago I had chance to spend some time DT's resident logo guru Kaibeezy. For reasons that escape me (and I cautiously neglected to inquire) Kaibeezy was without shoes, or at least without sneakers. So, we went shopping.
Can you believe that Daily Turismo has been around for 5 years? I can't! It seems like only yesterday that DT was a little bald baby sitting in my lap and throwing up on me, but not it talks back, swears, and spends most of the afternoon in time-out. Anyway, DT is turning 5 years old on Monday July 17th, so we are going to do 5 days of awesome 5s. Yup. All things 5. Expect lots of BMWs 5ers, maybe some 5 year old cars...cars for 5 year olds, 5ths of bourbon...etc. Let's kick it off with a retro DT badge and some 5-spoke alloys with a 5-lug wheel.
Happy Friday -- time for another off topic Coffee Brake. Let's open up the comments to
anything you might want to discuss. Go ahead. Discuss among yourselves. 
Welcome to Coffee Brake, where we take a break from the mundane and explore the urbane. Tuesday of this past week was the first day of summer for those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere and the sunshine (plus long days) are very welcome. Of course then i'm going to talk about the best cars for summer...because that is what we do around here. Things happen. We talk. Blah blah...yeah. I will have the audacity to suggest that all you need for a summer car is a manual gearbox and a convertible top...but you might have other ideas.
Welcome to Coffee Brake, where we take a break from the mundane and explore the outer limits of the mind. I was being cheeky in an earlier post today when I asked the question "is the sun yellow"...but this is indeed an actual real question. When measured by optical wizardry equipment the sun measures as pretty dang close to white as you can get, but people draw the sun as yellow...so here we've got something that people see everyday but they describe in a totally unrealistic way...which brings me to today's topic -- are BMW's good cars?
DT E-i-C Vince: For this week's Coffee Brake, I sat down with Frank Kosarek from InspectX and asked him about mobile pre-purchase inspections.
Happy Friday -- time for another Coffee Brake and today I'd like to open the discussion to the readers with a simple question. What are you doing this weekend in the garage?Happy Friday -- time for another Coffee Brake. Today, I'd like to play some DT commenter games. Word association. I will start with something and you guys continue the word association game in the thread below.