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Magazine of the National Capital Chapter BMW Car Club of America January/February 2011 The All-New Passport BMW One of The East Coast’s Largest State-of-The-Art Service Facilities Fast-Lane Service No Appointment Necessary. With 53 Service Bays, We’ll Take You Today. Saturday Service Hours Full Service Available at Our New State-of-The-Art Service Facility. Receive A Service Loaner For Life With Every New Passport BMW. 10% Discount on All Parts and Labor for BMW CCA Members. Free Pre-Purchase Inspection In our European-style cafe you’ll find daily made sandwiches, salads and desserts. Our customer lounge features flat-screen TV and complimentary laptops with Internet access. • Off-site demonstrations and test drives • Off-site new car deliveries • Off-site valet service pick up • European-style gourmet cafe 4730 Auth Place Marlow Heights, MD 20746 New and Certified 1-866-813-6848 Pre-Owned Vehicles European Delivery PassportBMW.com Diplomatic Sales The Ultimate passportbmw.com Driving Machin e® January | February 2011 Magazine of the National Capital Chapter BMW Car Club of America Cover: This beautiful one-owner 1972 2002tii is featured in the Traditions article on page 16. Photo: Raine Mantysalo VOLUME 41 | NUMBER 1 7 School’s Out... Until Next Year BY GORDON M. KIMPEL 2 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 3 FROM THE EDITOR 7 8 This Is Not Your Roundel , Folks 4 CALENDAR OF EVENTS BY RAINE MANTYSALO 5 COMING EVENTS 8 10 The 2011 6 Series and 2011 X3 at the 16 TRADITIONS 2011 LA Auto Show: Better Than Heidi Klum BY J.C. CHANEY, JR. 22 ULTIMATE OWNER 10 12 BMW X1 sDrive20d: Excellent 24 A LOOK BACK Mileage Meets Sport and Utility BY SAMULI SALMINEN 26 NEW MEMBERS 12 28 CLASSIFIEDS 16 Unmolested One-Owner Treasure BY BILL WILLIAMS 29 ADVERTISERS INDEX 16 President’s Message Welcome to the first color printed der Bayerische ! I am thrilled to see our chapter magazine will now be economically published in color. Although many people contributed to getting this project from dream to reality so rapidly, I want to recognize National Capital Chapter the der Bayerische Staff, including Jim LaFemina and Dennis Follett, for their efforts. BMW Car Club of America But I think Jim and Dennis would both agree that this would never have happened Chapter Officers (Please call 7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.) without the tenacity and vision of our production manager, Raine Mantysalo. Raine saw the opportunity to make the leap to color, worked out the details, secured a President Dave Miller . [email protected] 703.304.7950 very good offer and presented it to the Board for quick action. I am confident that Vice President everyone will enjoy the new publication, see its possibilities, and the ability we now Roy Morris . [email protected] 703.851.6017 have to bring out the true beauty of our cars. Treasurer The second order of business is to congratulate all those who contributed to the Paul Seto . [email protected] 301.908.1928 Secretary success of our 2010 ChapterFest. Despite the date change and a few last minute Greg Lindsay . [email protected] 703.440.0970 glitches, we held our biggest event to date. With more than 700 people attending, this Membership Chair year’s signature outing was certainly a great success. We had karting, Street Survival, Greg Lindsay . [email protected] 703.440.0970 Social Chair autocross, an outdoor do-it-yourself (with lifts!), and concours events, not to Paul Seto . [email protected] 301.908.1928 mention a well-catered lunch. Of course, it requires scores of volunteers to set up, run Drivers School Coordinator and break down an event of this size so I won’t be able to list them all by name. I do Matt Oleksiak . [email protected] want to mention all the program chairs who contributed their talents to help organize Concours Chair John McWilliams . concours [email protected] and pull off this event. However, special recognition must go to Algie Livingston Webmaster whose tireless efforts on our behalf truly brought this event to life. If you couldn’t Steven Schlossman . [email protected] make it this year, I hope to see you there next year. Autocross Committee Finally, I would be terribly remiss if I did not say thanks to all our volunteers. Jonathan Thayer . [email protected] Baltimore Activities As I am looking at the November/December der Bayerische’s calendar, it is amazing Bob Stern . [email protected] 410.602.0175 that we are able to plan and execute more than 100 events in a single year. It all comes Club Council Representative down to both the quantity and quality of our volunteer corps. Thank you all for your Pete Lem . [email protected] great work. der Bayerische Staff See you at an event soon. Editor Dave Jim LaFemina. [email protected] Production/Layout Raine Mantysalo . [email protected] 301.318.9949 Advertising Manager Dennis Follett. [email protected] Contributing Writers J.C. Chaney, Jr., Woody Hair, Gordon M. Kimpel, Raine Mantysalo, Samuli Salminen, Bill Williams Club Address NCC BMW CCA, P.O. Box 685, Arlington, VA 22216 National Membership Toll-Free Number 800.878.9292 der Bayerische is the official publication of the National Capital Chapter of the BMW Car Club of America, Inc., and is not in any way connected with the Bayerische Motoren Werke AG or BMW of North America, Inc. It is provided by and for the Club membership only. The Club assumes no liability for any of the information, opinions or suggestions contained here - in. No factory approval is implied unless specifically stated. Modifications within the warranty period of a vehicle may void the warranty. Deadline for . o l all material is the 21st of odd-numbered months. All articles are subject to a s y editing and must be received by the Editor. Send all photos to the t n Production Manager. For placement of commercial advertisements contact a M the Advertising Manager. See Classified Ads for information on member e n advertisement submission. Contents may not be reproduced without i a R permission in writing except by the BMW CCA and its Chapters. y b o ADVERTISING RATES t o h SIZE B u s i n e s s c a r d s i z e $100 per issue (add $10 for color) P . 1/4 page $200 per issue (add $25 for color) 0 1 $250 per issue (add $50 for color) 0 1/3 page 2 t 1/2 page $350 per issue (add $50 for color) s e F Full page $450 per issue (add $100 for color) r e t Premium placement $550 per issue (add $100 for color) p a h C 2 der Bayerische From The Editor Pondered and written over the recent ordinary M3, that’s Techno Violet, little splash of color is just another some additional reporting on the Thanksgiving Holiday, I stumbled baby. Talk about a horse of a differ - beginning. Check back in another event, please do not hesitate to send across the perfect introduction to this ent color! “What’s the big deal,” I forty years – we may be ready to me your thoughts. New writers are month’s column while enjoying what hear you saying. “So der Bayerische introduce der Bayerische in always welcome. has become an annual tradition in is now in color – big whoop – stunning 1950s-era 3D! To further illustrate the impact most, if not all, of the nearly fifty welcome to 17th century printing.” You'll notice, throughout this of stepping through that door years I’ve been around. No, it wasn’t Well, okay, point taken – we’re not issue, we have included several between what was and what could the bounty of the holiday dinner – exactly breaking any new ground colorful images of our late October be, consider the images below. this fine publication is certainly no here. But let me say two things 2010 ChapterFest event. Please These are, of course, two of the turkey! No, what it was could be seen before you all so quickly and forgive our inability to provide a actual cover images from 2010. I repeatedly over the long weekend casually dismiss this giant leap proper written accounting of that thought they were both very well courtesy of the Turner Classic we’ve just taken. First of all, I can enormously successful celebration done, and as editor I can say without Movies television channel, whose assure you that Raine did NOT hand of all things Bavarian, blue, and question that I was proud of each of signal was airing a seemingly end - color each of these copies, even less loop of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s though the article he’s written for this 1939 cinematic masterpiece, The issue may lead some of you to Wizard of Oz. Because once this believe he would’ve done exactly issue arrived, each of us was Dorothy that, if the situation ever called for it. Gale, strangers in a strange land Secondly, and more importantly, it’s opening a door that literally changed our first color issue and there’s just the way we saw everything on the something inherently special and other side. Welcome to the wonder - memorable about firsts, even when ful world of COLOR. From this day it’s simply taking a fresh, new look at forward we can stop wondering if that an old, dear friend. Considering all sweet old 2002 Touring is Fjord Blue, we do to keep our vintage cars Sahara Beige, or Colorado Orange.