The new 7 Series@BMW Square, Aoyama, Tokyo

The new 7 is in. It's huge but refined taken design cues from the concept CS a bit.

'Theo Jansen'@Hibiya, Tokyo

Went to see Theo Jansen's exhibition at Hibiya 'Patio'.
His creatures are famous as featured in BMW ads.

On the left as featured in BMW commercial.

Dead creatures were also among the exhibit.

Staff getting the living creature to feed air energy.

Energy is stored in this PET when released drives the shafts.

Night drive@London

Driven across Oxford Street by my brother's Grande Punto.

Now down Regent Street.

Keep going down Regent Street approaching Picadilly Circus.

Now headind West towards Knightsbridge.

Now they are building a Luxurious apartment here.

Approaching Harrods through to Sloan Square and Kings Road.

The drive ends by Chelsea Bridge.

Beach walk@Zushi, Kanagawa

Yosou-Guy@SoftBank

'Yosou-Guy' aka 'Oni-san' (aka Dante Carver) makes an appearance at SoftBank shop.

Lunch@Zushi, Kanagawa

Having lunch at the most successful franchised restaurant 'D's'. The location made this shop so famous.

Dinner@'Mathura', Yokohama, Kanagawa

Tonight's dinner is Indian at 'Mathura' located near Ookurayama. The salad 'Chicken chat' and curry dishes are just great.

Lunch@Hayama

Having lunch at a restaurant by the beach. Chicken curry is good so as well as the view from the window.

Night drive@Ginza

BMW M Paddock@BMW Square, Aoyama, Tokyo

At my dealers now to leave my 650i for a body repair where I had scratched the rear side wheel arch against the garage entrance back in May... that was only a month after my 650i was delivered! Since it will take few weeks to be repaired, I have also asked to repair the scratches on the 19inch alloys as well as to update the HDD navigation system as it had a habit of displaying German for some strange reason.

After signing up for a courtesy car (a 320i), moved upstairs to the 2nd floor to browse the M Paddock they have set up from October 24 through to end of January 2008. This is where I had pictured the Ruby Black M6 back in June. Inside they had the M3, M5, M6... and Z4 M Couple/Roadsters displayed in the outside terrace.

40th Tokyo Motor Show2@Makuhari-messe, Chiba

Still at the Motorshow. Now on to the 2007.11 face lifted version of the 6 series cabriolet, changes include LED turn indicators, redesigned front and rear bumper assy on the exterior. Interior changes includes new design gear knob, 'BMW Night Vision', 'Lane Departure Warning System', 'Head-up Display', 'Mode Preset Buttons' now comes standard... that's 5k~6k (circa 1million yen) worth of equipment!

Then moved on to see the Alpina B6S based on the face lifted 6 series range! This supercharged luxury machine boasts 537 horses with 0-60mph sprint at 4.5sec (coupe) and 4.8sec (cabrio.) with double the price tag (20million yen!) of standard 6 series that does this with 367 horses with 0-60 in 5.2sec (coupe) and 5.5 sec (cabrio).

40th Tokyo Motor Show1@Makuhari-messe, Chiba

Thanks to my BMW sales representative who has arranged me a pair of free tickets for the Tokyo Motorshow. Pictured here is the "Concept CS", first unveiled at the Shanghai Motorshow, coupe styled 4 door Granturismo concept is the ultimate compilation of modern BMW design identity. This surely shows the new design directions for the future models to come. Love to get my hands on it if this design comes into production (may be in 2~3 years?) at a realistic price tag... I guess it's something in between the current 6 series and 7 series range.

Hey, that's exactly 2 years since the last Tokyo Motorshow in 2005 visited on November 4th!

BMW M Cafe@ 'umu' Roppongi, Tokyo

Outside the exhibition hall they had the rare Z8 and the original M6!



Amazed of the immaculate condition of this E24 M6!

BMW M Cafe@ 'umu' Roppongi, Tokyo

Went to see this limited event BMW Japan had held on the way back from business in Roppongi, Tokyo. 'BMW M Cafe' was held in muti-purpose exhibition hall 'umu' in Roppongi Hills and had on show the latest Z4 M Roadster, M3, M5 and the M6!


My purpose of visit was simply to see the M6. Thankfully the event was pretty laid back which allowed me to enjoy free drink and sweets, chat with the sales person and to actually sit inside and feel what M6 is like! Dream on! It's 16million yen (80K sterling!) I can never afford for a car unless I hit the jackpod in the lottery or something!