See SF regions web site for my Grand Cherokee doing solo II.
It didn't flip but the suspension's been modified... mainly lowered and
stiffened.
- Rick Brown
BP Corvette
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Thana, Peter
{High~Palo Alto}
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 11:55 AM
To: 'ba-autox@autox.team.net'
Subject: Disgrace! (That's me)
I went to BMW's Ultimate Driving Experience at 3Com yesterday where you
autox an X5. After the standard chalk talk and practice, there was a relay
race between 2 teams of ~8 people plus instructors. Well, I set the best
scratch time of the non-instructors by ~1.5 seconds, but unfortunately with
2 cones! In the end our team lost by 1 second and I consider it all my
fault.
Funny thing was, I had no idea I hit cones until my dad told me. That's the
problem with SUVs- you can run over puppies and little kids all day and not
even notice! Ok, so I'm just making excuses:)
I have to say BMW NA ran an extremely well organized and fun event. When I
first saw the number of people, I thought we'd be there for 5 hours. But
they kept everything on schedule by providing lots of cars (I mean SUVs) and
splitting us up. If only they'll bring this back with the M cars...
As another activities, their drivers demonstrated some violent lane-change
action with a Lexus LX470, a Merc ML430, and their beloved X5. The LX470
would have well and truly barrel rolled were it not for the massive Consumer
Reports-style anti SUV flipping girders attached to it. The Merc almost
flipped, and the BMW of course did not. Still, I just don't get it; it
doesn't flip, but neither does a 528 sport wagon. Anyway, makes you think
about SUVs doing Solo II...
Peter Thana
'99 BMW Z3 2.8 Coupe
SFR AS-Street Tire
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