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Official BMW Club Joy of Driving April 2018 Inside this Issue: Kalender 3 President’s Corner 4 South America on a BMW 5 Street Survival 6 BMW 8 Series Coupe 8 Classified 9 All-New 2019 BMW X4 10 Charter of Turin 12 Joy of Driving *Joy of Driving 2 Joy of Driving BMW Club of Southern Alberta Kalender The BMW Club of Southern Alberta is a member club of the BMW Club of April 7 Cars, Coffee & Chat, 10:00 am at The Block Kitchen and Canada. The BMW Club of Canada is a founding national member of the Lounge at 2411 4 St NW, Calgary International Council of BMW Clubs. April 11 Social & General Meeting - Social starts at 6:00 PM and Mailing Address: PO Box 75012 Cambrian, Calgary, Alberta T2K 6J8 meeting at 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Austrian-Canadian Club, General e-mail: [email protected] 3112 11th street NE Website: www.bmwcsa.ca April 29 Grand Tour of South America on a BMW, with Rocky Bow Facebook: BMW Club of Southern Alberta (@bmwcsa96) BMW Riders, 10:00 am at Redwood House, Redwood Instagram: @bmwcsa96 Meadows, followed by Lunch and Country Drive. Twitter: @bmwcsa96 Watch www.bmwcsa.ca/events for details including FREE YouTube: BMW Club of Southern Alberta EventBrite registration May 5 Cars, Coffee & Chat, 10:00 am at The Block Kitchen and Lounge at 2411 4 St NW Freude am Fahren [Joy of Driving] Newsletter May 9 Social & General Meeting - Social starts at 6:00 PM and The BMW Club of Southern Alberta (BMWCSA) publishes Freude am Fahren meeting at 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Austrian-Canadian Club, in print 4 times per year and emails Joy of Driving 6 times per year. 3112 11th street NE Ideas and opinions are those of the authors, without authentication by or liability June 2 Cars, Coffee & Chat, 10:00 am at The Block Kitchen and Lounge at 2411 4 St NW to the BMWCSA, its Editors, Directors or Officers. BMWCSA reserves the right to modify or edit any material or submissions. June 9 Street Survival – see article in Newsletter & website www.bmwcsa.ca/event/bmwcsa-introduces-street-survival/ Material in this newsletter may describe vehicle modifications or procedures June 13 Social & General Meeting - social starts at 6:00 PM and that may void your warranty, cause your car to fail emissions tests, or make meeting at 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Austrian-Canadian Club, your insurance company or agent unhappy. BMWCSA, its Editors, Directors 3112 11th street NE and Officers are not responsible for any consequences that may ensue June 17 Annual Father’s Day Drive – stay tuned for details from such modifications. Please send Articles, Mail, Classifieds and advertising to Chris Tworek, July 7 Cars, Coffee & Chat, 10:00 am at The Block Kitchen and Editor, at [email protected] Lounge at 2411 4 St NW Please submit photos at 300 dpi in tiff or jpg format, and text submissions in July 11 Social & General Meeting - social starts at 6:00 PM and MS Word or alternative format by arrangement with editor meeting at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, *BMW Gallery Boardroom, 7699 - 110 Ave NW, Calgary, AB (*for July only) Print Deadline: 15th of the month preceding or by arrangement with Editor August 4 Cars, Coffee & Chat, 10:00 am at The Block Kitchen and Advertisement Deadline: last Wednesday of the Month preceding Lounge at 2411 4 St NW Classified Ads are free to members; $25/month to non-members August 8 Social & General Meeting - Social starts at 6:00 PM and Please send Address Changes to Glen Cook at [email protected] meeting at 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Austrian-Canadian Club, 3112 11th street NE Directors and Officers Please limit phone calls to between the hours of 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM Membership in BMWCSA President & Director Membership Newsletter Editor, Greg Walsh Chairperson Vice- President & Membership is a family affair with many of our events devised with family 403-286-2248 Glen Cook Director participation in mind. The family membership of $60 for one year, $105 for two years and $150 for three years covers all household family members. You do [email protected] 403-274-8716 Chris Tworek not have to own a BMW to be a Club member! [email protected] 403-238-8049 To join the club, download the membership form from the link below and Treasurer & Director [email protected] fill in your details: http://bmwcsa.ca/resources/Membership-Application.pdf Gord Anderson Social Media Manager For more info, or to submit your membership application, please [email protected] & Director Production Editors email Glen Cook or Victor Yuen at: [email protected] Victor Yuen Margaret Cook Membership privileges include newsletters and participation in many social Secretary & Director [email protected] Michelle Belanger and motoring activities, plus a 15% discount on parts & lifestyle accessories at Rainer Kahl BMW Dealerships. After one year of membership, you will also enjoy a 2% [email protected] Webmaster National Club Liaison Rebate off MRSP on either a new car or motorcycle from BMW Canada. This Michelle Belanger & Director discount is based on MRSP and not on your negotiated price. Events Coordinators [email protected] Brian DeBoeck Also many of our advertising sponsors, whose ads appear in our newsletters, offer discounts to members for parts and services. Please Greg Walsh [email protected] remember to show your BMWCSA card and identify yourself as a club Bruce Borstmayer Motorsport Coordinators member when purchasing parts, accessories and service. [email protected] Josh Carter Motorrad Liaison [email protected] Bill Jackson Gary Coleman [email protected] [email protected] We would like to welcome to our Club family: Jonathan Godfrey (2017 VW Golf R On the cover: Bullwinkle meets X3 in Moose Meadows. Photo by Catalin Mitrache *Joy of Driving 3 Joy of Driving The weekend after, on Saturday, June 9th, will be BMWCSA’s first- President’s Corner Greg Walsh ever Tire Rack Street Survival school for young and new drivers. Plans are well advanced under the stewardship of our own Gary Coleman. We have some interesting things planned for the next few months. Our This school is a volunteer public service effort of your Club. We need own Bill Jackson, Motorrad Liaison, has arranged for a Meet-and-Greet, our membership to pitch-in to make this a successful school. If you are Country Drive and Lunch with a group of local BMW bike enthusiasts on interested in participating as a volunteer worker, organizer or instructor Sunday April 29 (see announcement on pg 5). This will be much more do drop Gary a line [email protected]. Registration for Students is than pleasant chit chat as the Rocky Bow BMW Riders are going to now open on EventBrite - see our www.bmwcsa.ca/events or the links show off the true art of touring – riding the full length of the spine of in the following Newsletter article. South America. I am excited to meet these sociable folk and see an intriguing travelogue. Make sure to add this to your personal Kalender! So, what has the Club been up to recently? The Winter Driving School Sponsored by the BMW Club of Northern Alberta was a hoot! Ever wondered what it is like to drive a Formula 1 at the track? Lots of frozen-lake exercises and a very challenging race track on the Victor Yuen is planning to set up an opportunity in May at the Race lake. It was quite instructive to turn the ‘Nannies’* off and see where Room to experience their Full Motion Race Simulators. “You’ll race on they were saving the bacon. The truly instructive experience from a some of the most famous race tracks from around the world - if there is personal perspective was to learn what the various Stability and a bump, rumble strip or a dip in the asphalt, you’ll feel it!” Keep tuned Traction Control Systems would not let you do during avoidance to our web page www.bmwcsa.ca/events/ for updates on this unique manoeuvres on ice. No matter how much I wanted to intentionally skid event. the car around an obstacle, it couldn’t be done with the Nannies on. Admittedly some of these manoeuvres are for well-seasoned drivers, If you would rather have hands-on track time, let me remind you but if you have the skill set and react instinctively you are in for a rude that there is a group of dedicated Trackaholics heading to High Plains awakening and a bump in the night that may have been avoided if the Raceway, Colorado in May and on to Brainerd International Raceway, driver, not the car, was in control. I am far from being convinced that a Minnesota in June. We will hone our skills with our own Bimmers on fully autonomous self-driving car is currently achievable or desirable; some exciting tracks at these BMW HPDE Schools and additional HPDE especially in a Canadian winter. Many thanks to our northern Lapping Days. Give me a shout if you’d like to join in. neighbours for making this school available to the five southerners in attendance. For the gentler souls among you there are still a couple of spots open on the 2018 Swiss Alps Tour in September; contact Thanks also to Sheni’s Autotrend for an informative demonstration [email protected]. If this timing isn’t right for you we have plans for of “gunk in the valve train” and Decarbonization using the Terra Clean more tours in the coming years: 2019--Canadian Rockies, Oregon Coast, process.