BMWLand

My wife has had her little Citroen C1 for nigh on thirteen years and as much as I love its frugality, quirkiness and cost of ownership I do find the interior space horrendous. So cramped and as much as the 3 cylinder engine has bags of character it is a little breathless.

Soooooo, we have been chewing over changing for a while. My wife likes to take her time to make decisions and adores her C1 so this will be a sad occasion when it eventually finds new ownership - but my stepson might (reluctantly ) take it over as he has his test in 3 months and it only has 60k miles on it.

There was an event at Mini over the last weekend so we test drove a Mini Cooper C and loved it. What a belting car, very nippy, well appointed and priced and pretty stylish so thanks to a decent contribution from mini and a loyalty payment as well as we have a bmw already registered to our address we pulled the trigger a few hours ago and will hopefully receive a British Racing Green 3dr with black...

Back home after a most interesting day in Gloucestershire.

The new car is safely parked up on the driveway now, all ready for many adventures, drives, upgrades and assorted motoring related fun.

As mentioned in the ordering thread, we arrived at Cotswolds at 11:30am, bang on time. I parked the M2 up and disconnected the owner account, said good bye and walked into meet the new car. Mark, the salesman, took us over to the bay where the car was sat under the cover, we ordered a coffee each and set about the boring forms.



After some forms to sign off the part ex, and then some forms for finance etc, the car was revealed:

https://youtube.com/shorts/F1lHr_J25sQ?si=IV_pNwfYFG7BnxyJ

Mrs W was most surprised, she was convinced I'd ordered the PB version.

The M Performance rear spoiler looks great on the car, I'm very happy I specified this.



We then sat in the car and connected my...

Due to a bereavement we had to make our trip to BiH earlier than planned.
Got here 10 days ago after a 2500 mile trip in three days.
Luckily it was over a weekend when there are no trucks on the Autobahnen in Germany or Austria, but it was the first weekend of most countries school Summer holidays so the roads were full of families heading for the beaches of the Adriatic or Aegean.
Anyhow as predicted the car started telling me it needed service attention part way through the journey.
A main service was required - oil and filter, air filter, cabin/pollen filter, and fuel filter
So I duly contacted the main dealership in Bosna - AutoCentar Tomić in Sarajevo.
What a helpful bunch of people they are!
Sarajevo is two and a half hours away from where we are situated in Tuzla so they arranged for a 12 o'clock service slot.
In the event we arrived half an hour early which was not a problem.
Three technician set to work and the car was ready by one thirty.
No charge to us whatsoever as the...