BMW Car Club Mexico 10th Anniversary Event

[BMW M Power Mexico]

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Last weekend we held our club’s 10th anniversary event. BMW is only available in Mexico since ’94. Before that only a very few grey market imports were available here. This is the official BMW Car Club for Mexico.







For this special occasion, we rented a large venue near Mexico City where we could set up a few driving exercises and have fun with our cars.

Initially, we set up three exercises:

- A wet “moose” test to have members get a feel for how the cars behave with all assists off in slippery conditions. That was a lot of fun. Quite a bit of spinning went on in a controlled, safe environment.

















- We also had an acceleration/precision braking event where you would accelerate fully and then brake while trying to place your car in as little time as possible within a very, very small braking target zone. Side by side with another car. So, it took some thinking beyond just going fast. On that we graded the attendants and gave out prizes that were sponsored by Imagen Motors, a local dealer, to the winners.













- The third exercise was half of the autocross that we’d setup later so that members could get a general feel for cornering and handling.





Three groups rotated among those exercises. All instructors were club volunteers of course.

Finally, we built a highly technical and fun mini-track. Basically an autocross course where each group would go out behind a pace car and have fun around it.









I got to help pacing those groups. For one of the sessions I got to drive the new M550i that was also brought by our local dealer. I will do a separate review of that car as well as of a 540i that I had for a week (that one provided by BMW Mexico). Here I´ll just say that it was very, very impressive.





Personally, my wife and I brought out our 1M and E60 M5. We had never autocrossed the big beast. It was surprisingly fun. Those SMG shifts at full tilt in S6 are fantastic fun. Having said that, the 1M was built for this kind of fun. I frankly think it’s one of the best driver’s BMWs of all time.





Additional notable sights…

Can you spot the difference between these two?





Wrapped 1M...



Very rare (here) M4 cabrio...





Wrapped M235i



First & last of a dynasty...



We also had support from the local BMW Mexico corporate office. They brought out an i8 and an i3 to dress up the event.





We had a great "comida" at the end and handed out awards to the day's winners.



Overall, we are very satisfied with the progress the club has made over the last 10 years and are hoping for many, many more.



Greetings all from your fellow BMW enthusiasts in Mexico.

[buddalun]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

The 1Ms and the silver E46 M3 look so damn good.

[bimmer456]

This is great! Lots of great cars, looks like you guys had a great time!

[Rikx1M]

looks like lots of fun, thanks for sharing!

[M3 n X5M]

Awesome post OP!

Difference in M4 GTS: one has frozen paint and the other does not.

[Downeaster1]

Have you ever had your 1M worked on across the boarder at BMW of Encinitas? I think I've replaced your turbochargers before.

[ando]

Nice event and post write up. Nice to see the 1 series hatches and all the other special cars.

[GoRomeo]

thanks for sharing! Keep it up paisas...

[vladberca]

Thanks for sharing this great event!
Keep it up! 👍

[brad850csi]

I noticed the gloss M4 GTS is US spec with the ugly reflectors and the good majority of cars there appear to be ROW LHD.

[raysspl]

Looks like a bunch of fun! I'd wanna do this when I go to Mexico

[KevinM]

Looks like a blast! A nice variety of BMWs showed up. Thanks for posting.

[Upgrade+]

Man that girl has a nice bubble butt lol
The cars are cool too haha.

[Luv2]

Looks like a lot of fun.
Some impressive cars and even more impressive backdrop. Beautiful location !!
Hope everyone had fun.

[03BeastCharmer]

Nice event. Looks like you had a mix of BMW generations see a 2002, and of course the E30!

1M driver has a ponytail. Nice to see both men and women out enjoying their cars.

[EL Jeffe 5]

Sweet Thanks for posting

[bimmer456]

I see that this finally got voted onto the front page!

[BMW M Power Mexico]

Thanks all! We really enjoyed doing this event. It is rewarding to try and build the local BMW community here.

And thanks mods for making the Bimmerpost cover!

Originally Posted by M3 n X5M

Awesome post OP!

Difference in M4 GTS: one has frozen paint and the other does not.

Look closer....

[Motorsport]

Originally Posted by brad850csi

I noticed the gloss M4 GTS is US spec with the ugly reflectors and the good majority of cars there appear to be ROW LHD.

You're right, for some reason, we get European Spec cars here, that means that the M4 GTS has the race seats, race seat belts, the factory extinguisher (not that you need it), and a subtle darker tint for the rear Windows which would otherwise be nearly imposible to install due to the roll bar.

[eriku]

You guys really missed it!! We had a blast of time with the exercises on track, the amazing cars and lots of good people here... and the food!!

The altitud is something to mention, the OFFROAD TOLUCA is even above regular Mexico City's, the turbos worked really well, but some drivers mention something about the natural aspirated cars: the cars got "some power loss", still amazing to have them all roaring all the trackway!!

We had a lot of good practice and lots of pictures too !!!

eriku

[eau_rouge]

I am a bit surprised about the N20832 stickers on the GTS and the other cars...seems like some of the Mexican drivers are really deep into the Nordschleife culture!

[Turkish Pickle]

Originally Posted by Upgrade+

Man that girl has a nice bubble butt lol
The cars are cool too haha.

knew i wasnt the only one...