4,200 Mile New M850 Shakedown Cruise Through SW USA

chicagofan00 · 06-02-2022, 05:13 PM

Wow, epic road trip journal. Thanks for sharing!

_jenks_ · 06-02-2022, 05:26 PM

So cool , I'm doing a euro trip starting next month across the alps and I'm hoping to make a short video on the trip

Jim-Bow · 06-02-2022, 05:28 PM

What an epic post, road trip and pics! Hats off to you fella. Car looks great and the scenery does too, would enjoy seeing this part of the world in person!

Thank you for posting.

RigaTony1982 · 06-02-2022, 06:01 PM

I love these threads. Thanks for posting. It’s always so cool to see all the neat places in this country you’d otherwise never hear about (and the cars always help too)!

I really want to pick my next car up from the PDC in South Carolina and do a mini road trip back to Chicago with it, stopping at sights along the way. One day…

Mandingo9 · 06-02-2022, 07:14 PM

Amazing write up. I enjoyed every picture and the captions were just enough to inform without bogging the flow of the trip. We'll done sir.

bholler · 06-02-2022, 10:04 PM

Epic!

T0RM3NT · 06-02-2022, 10:11 PM

That was awesome. Thanks for sharing snowbimmer.

tjlees · 06-03-2022, 01:35 AM

Very Cool!

Spectacular pictures and excellent write up!

Love these road trips - now inspiring me to plan our next road trip in the states from blighty.

Unfortunately the M5C doesn't travel well so it will have be American muscle!

JF01 · 06-03-2022, 02:25 AM

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing those beautiful pictures! So many of them. I'm in love with the views, hope to see that all on my own one day.

snareman · 06-03-2022, 11:02 AM

Beautiful pics! How did you keep the car so clean the whole trip?

white2abbit · 06-03-2022, 11:08 AM

Epic trip! Love seeing road trip threads. Amazing photos too.

harperium · 06-03-2022, 12:58 PM

i love these posts! a kindred spirit! I've got over 19K miles on my X3MC in a year from road trips. These days I use a windshield-mounted GoPro and record the driving experience on the most scenic parts - lets me re-live the drive.

You might want to look into picking up a drone. Lots of fun to get aerials as you park on the side of the road.

bimmerboy71195 · 06-03-2022, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by _jenks_

So cool , I'm doing a euro trip starting next month across the alps and I'm hoping to make a short video on the trip

Are you renting a car or having your bmw shipped?

_jenks_ · 06-03-2022, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by bimmerboy71195

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Originally Posted by _jenks_

So cool , I'm doing a euro trip starting next month across the alps and I'm hoping to make a short video on the trip

Are you renting a car or having your bmw shipped?

I live in England so it's an 800 mile drive from home to the start of the Alps , i cross from England to France via the Euro tunnel (train that you drive your car onto) 👍

Malfunkshun'd · 06-03-2022, 08:55 PM

Hard to beat a road trip like that.
Beautiful pictures. Rule of the 2/3 - 1/3 never disappoints!!

PARTS@STBMW · 06-03-2022, 10:59 PM

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

tgrundke · 06-04-2022, 10:04 AM

Thank you for sharing the trip. My wife has converted this midwestern boy into a Californiaphile, and you've given me some great ideas for stops on our next trip out there. Really appreciate it.

CamasM3e93 · 06-04-2022, 11:01 AM

Lunch at Ventana, nice! We skipped it on our leg through Big Sur last week-so of course now I'm jealous and must redo the section.

snowbimmer · 06-04-2022, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ikonn

Dang, after skimming through this, my rented Camry to take me from Toronto to Savannah and back is….

just not going to cut it 😟

Just drop your rented Camry in Spartanburg and bring a new BMW back to Toronto. Problem solved. (Well, half solved

)

snowbimmer · 06-04-2022, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by NightWriter

Wow, what an epic road trip. Thanks for the incredibly thorough photo journal and notes. Inspiring!

I hope you continue to enjoy the car, and the adventures it brings.

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.

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Originally Posted by bimmerboy71195

Went on a road trip from Long Island to Hershey park this weekend (500 miles round trip) and I gotta say there truly is something special about having a bmw on the open road like that. I wouldn't shut up the whole car ride talking about the driving dynamics and the ride quality my gf thought it was funny lol.

You're lucky. I do the same. My wife probably just wishes I'd finally shut up.

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Awesome post and the funny moments included, mate.

It's those traveling moments in the car that are often the best memories.

Thanks for sharing some beautiful photos

Thx. Nothing beats a long car trip.

snowbimmer · 06-04-2022, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by chicagofan00

Wow, epic road trip journal. Thanks for sharing!

Anytime!

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Originally Posted by _jenks_

So cool , I'm doing a euro trip starting next month across the alps and I'm hoping to make a short video on the trip

I would kill to be able to "drive" over to the continent. There's another post that just went up and he drove from the UK also. Have fun.

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Originally Posted by Jim-Bow

What an epic post, road trip and pics! Hats off to you fella. Car looks great and the scenery does too, would enjoy seeing this part of the world in person!

Thank you for posting.

Thank you. Come on over. You'd probably think we have cheap gas

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Originally Posted by RigaTony1982

I love these threads. Thanks for posting. It’s always so cool to see all the neat places in this country you’d otherwise never hear about (and the cars always help too)!

I really want to pick my next car up from the PDC in South Carolina and do a mini road trip back to Chicago with it, stopping at sights along the way. One day…

Appreciate the kind words. I, too want to pick up a car in SC and drive it back. I usually order cars, but my last 3 have weirdly been taken off the lot. This has to stop.

snowbimmer · 06-04-2022, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Mandingo9

Amazing write up. I enjoyed every picture and the captions were just enough to inform without bogging the flow of the trip. We'll done sir.

Thank you. My wife also says I have an economy of words.

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Originally Posted by bholler

Epic!

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Originally Posted by T0RM3NT

That was awesome. Thanks for sharing snowbimmer.

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Originally Posted by tjlees

Very Cool!

Spectacular pictures and excellent write up!

Love these road trips - now inspiring me to plan our next road trip in the states from blighty.

Unfortunately the M5C doesn't travel well so it will have be American muscle!

Thanks. Get a Mustang. Everyone says they look like an M8. Wait, maybe its the other way around.

Had to look up blighty.

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tjlees Major 349 Rep 1,437 Posts Drives: F30 Chav Mobile Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: United Kingdom iTrader: (0)	Very Cool! Spectacular pictures and excellent write up! Love these road trips - now inspiring me to plan our next road trip in the states from blighty. Unfortunately the M5C doesn't travel well so it will have be American muscle!
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harperium Major 1312 Rep 1,064 Posts Drives: G80 M3cx Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Chicago iTrader: (0)	i love these posts! a kindred spirit! I've got over 19K miles on my X3MC in a year from road trips. These days I use a windshield-mounted GoPro and record the driving experience on the most scenic parts - lets me re-live the drive. You might want to look into picking up a drone. Lots of fun to get aerials as you park on the side of the road.
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