BMWLand

Obviously this will need to be seen as a finished product, especially as a touring, but the approach certainly sits well with me..

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-germancars/all-new-bmw-m350-xdrive-earns-443hp/51651

Redeemed my ticket for my birthday present from March at the Vulcan Bomber Simulator experience near to Welspool. Booked a lodge in the middle of knowhere for 3 nights, some great roads in that neck of the woods, weather was good so roof down.

If this is your sort of thing then I'm sure you'll enjoy it, I certainly did! A couple of hours with 1hr flying time including pre flight checks, all the gauges work on demand as they should, no modern stuff in the cockpit. Two successful take-off and landings from Innsbruck followed by a release of a bucket of instant sunshine and the extreme getaway from the blast (stick back, max power rolling over to the inverted then a 180 to level flight, epic stuff!! Did a take-off from my nearest airport, Carlisle then a foggy landing in Barrow-in-Furness post flying down the West cumbrian coast. Came in too fast, skidded of the runway.

Not being a racing snake these days it was a squeeze getting into the Captains seat.

Well worth the trip....

I am a member of only one other internet based car forum which is Forum5.

Unfortunately mainly due to a catalogue of unfortunate disasters including the death in a car crash of it's owner, BMW insisting on removing "BMW" from the forum name and a complete loss of data in a format hosting change the site is no longer viable.

They, like here, are a good bunch and I have recommended that they migrate across to BMWLAND.