On Saturday, May 24, I went on a trip to Solingen with the youth team that I help coach. Normally I don't go but they were short on coaches so they asked me to join them. I really was not looking forward to the 2 hour drive in the van/bus. Luckily for me, they parents chaperon their kids their personally meaning that we would be going in cars instead of the horrible vans! Also lucky, our team owner, Martin Nixdorf (he may have more money than God) let us use his car. Mitch, the head coach for this youth team does a lot of work with the youth team and drives kids everywhere so Martin was comfortable letting Mitch take his car. Man o man!
Martin drives a BMW 740 which is ridiculously pimped out. He had it specially made for him complete with suede roof linings, Leather panels and seats, wood trip console, DVD, CD, GPS, doors that close themselves, everything man! The back seats don't look like there's not a whole lot of room but what you don't realize is that the seats recline back almost to a 45 degree angle. Man, i could just pass out in there...instead, I passed out in the front seat.
Like all fancy cars, you just have to have the key in your pocket to unlock the door and start it. when you are in a certain range, it opens automatically and locks automatically. Once you start the car, the chairs adjust to Martin's liking, and the steering wheel comes out towards you. What's really cool however is that supposedly there's a refrigerator in there which I haven't seen, but the back seats, not only have TV's but have Tables as well! Amazing!
To go along with this pimped out BMW was an amazing engine. So smooth and quiet, yet very...I mean very powerful. I was asking Mitch all kinds of questions about it and he gave me a test on the way there. Just a small one....coming around a turn going from about 30 kmh to about 100 kmh in a split second. Keep in mind 100 kmh is nothing. While driving on the Autobahn the average speed is anywhere between 120-150. And since we were driving with parents following us, we nicely stayed at about 130 the majority of the way. On the way back however was a different story.
After a quick stop at McDonalds with the team, each family left on their own to drive back. Mitch and I were one of the last ones to leave. We quickly left and proceeded to drive home as quick as possible. I'm talking 250 kmh!!!!!!!!!!!!! English translation - 155 MPH!!!!!!! I'm watching all the other cars in the other lanes as we just blow past them. We were flying past cars that were going above 150 kmh as well. More importantly however is the fact that when some slow poke got in our lane to pass another car, Mitch would have to hit the brake pretty hard and the best thing is...you hardly even knew it. Everything that car did was smooth, from driving to making me comfortable to sleep! Man is it nice to have money and a road where there are no speed limits!
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