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After about six weeks of searching for a 750i with the right options, but no sport package, I finally found the one. It was in Cincinnati at the BMW dealer on the north end of town. It's a CPO with 21K miles, sterling gray / black. After having it inspected, I was going to just have it shipped home to Colorado. But after seeing it and driving it, I thought, "What a missed opportunity if you have it shipped back. Just cancel your plans for tomorrow and drive it home." Talk about a great drive. And talk about a car that could get you in serious trouble with the law!!! A slight touch of the "go pedal" and you're at triple-digits with no fuss, no noise, etc. Thankfully I didn't have any brushes with the law, though highway patrol officers tailed me a few times to read the out-of-state temporary license tag.
I would post some photos, but it is snowing here today - and it still has the 19" Pirelli sport tires on it. The new, all-season tires I ordered will be here next week. Not that it will see a lot of snow - that's what the Jeep is for. But I would like to go forward instead of sideways should I get caught in an storm that wasn't forecast.
I will post some photos when I get the opportunity to get some nice shots.
And by the way, 20 hours in this car was the perfect way to learn i-Drive. It was like a foreign-language immersion course; you had to learn the language to survive. Now, after learning it, I see that there was a logic to the software design. No, it's not entirely intuitive until you learn that logic. But it works nicely once you figure out what the software designers were thinking. Until I figured that out... I will admit to being thankful that the 07s have the leather pad on the i-Drive controller. It saved me from breaking my hand when I was pounding my fist on it in complete frustration.
I would post some photos, but it is snowing here today - and it still has the 19" Pirelli sport tires on it. The new, all-season tires I ordered will be here next week. Not that it will see a lot of snow - that's what the Jeep is for. But I would like to go forward instead of sideways should I get caught in an storm that wasn't forecast.
I will post some photos when I get the opportunity to get some nice shots.
And by the way, 20 hours in this car was the perfect way to learn i-Drive. It was like a foreign-language immersion course; you had to learn the language to survive. Now, after learning it, I see that there was a logic to the software design. No, it's not entirely intuitive until you learn that logic. But it works nicely once you figure out what the software designers were thinking. Until I figured that out... I will admit to being thankful that the 07s have the leather pad on the i-Drive controller. It saved me from breaking my hand when I was pounding my fist on it in complete frustration.
