Is a coupe practical? Yup!

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    My step-daughter and son-in-law hired a skip last week, when it was delivered they realised it was bigger than they thought. I was planning on hiring one to get rid of some old internal doors and fence panels and posts, so offered to pay towards theirs. Lovely.
    As they live 500yds away I decided to be brave and use my F32 for the job. Much preparation in getting the car ready, including a rubber boot mat and loads of sheets/towels, and I did three loads.

    Had to do two with the boot open, exhaust sounds brilliant like that. Ha.

    After three runs the only evidence is a small bit of vacuuming to do. Phew!!

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    Oh! Well done!
    I’m liking the 4 series just now! In both forms including the goofy one in diamond white!
    I do wish you’d not shown the practicalities.....

    Next you will say that a towbar is a feesible addition and really confuse my thoughts, that are fortunately some way off!
     
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    A tow bar couldn’t be further from my mind....however, could work as a cycle rack holder....hmmmm.....

    Slabs of concrete and post ballast went in as well.

    Vacuumed and back to normal now. SUV, estate....not for me.
     
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    good to see it getting used but not abused as you have obviously gone to great lengths to protect the interior and the bumper lip (y)

    l have never been a big fan of two door coupes and now l am the wrong side of 60 they are even further off my radar but the world would be a very boring place if we were all the same

    l always said l would never buy an SUV but then l had never even driven one until a three week family holiday to Orlando we got a huge seven seat SUV with acres of room with all the seats up and over three weeks and a good few miles l warmed to the SUV thing and now would consider something the size of an X3 not sure l would want to go much bigger than that

    l was always a fan of hatchbacks and had three Mondeos so the 6 GT is a hatchback even if BMW say it isn't:rofll::rofll:
    the only thing that worries me about dropping the seats and filling the back with rubbish is the back seat touch screens see very vulnerable and cant be easily removed
     
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    Nice work.

    Reminds me of the annual spring clear out around the corner. :(


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    This is my fourth coupe, had an Alfa GT, E92 325i, E92 320d and the current F32.
    When I had the Alfa my boys were 8 and 10, we still managed to carry all the camping gear, scooters etc. This has made my packing skills improve massively!
    Always loved the lines, of a proper coupe at any rate. My friend has a Passat CC, forever digging him that it’s just a Passat with a sloping roofline.

    I was worried the back of the driver/passenger seats would get scuffed, so used old decorating towels to cover them. Worked a treat.
     
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    The GT. Drove to the Amalfi coast for a friends wedding, this was on the journey back, the tunnels were closed in Switzerland due to traffic.
    And then the camping set up my boys and I loved. Totally practical cars....
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    Don't mention that word....:D
     
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    Although the F30 did a reasonable job to be fair:

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    The E92 was great as a camping machine.
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    As was the last one:
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    Reading my posts make me wonder, have I had too many cars, do I go camping too much (although no camping at all in 2020) or do I just take too many photos??
     
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    that is what @snrbrtsn would use a tow bar for, a cycle carrier but he has mentioned in the past that he wants a tin tent
     
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    !

    Tin tent is cancelled for now.....
    Wow! So many camp sites and not a single kitchen sink, for camping I always end up filling boot and roof box.
    How I desire a night under the stars outwith the garden
     
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    I abandoned camping a while back, and handed the gear to my son. It mainly consisted of a Blacks A-frame mountain tent, complete with a fly sheet that cost as much as the tent, 2 duck-down Icelandic sleeping bags, 2 camping stools, a primus stove, kettle, and a couple of pots. Would have it down and all in the boot in less than 10 minutes. And for a couple of years that included fitting into the boot of a AH Sprite.

    Fond memories of one glorious late afternoon on the back of Snowden, the rain driven horizontally across the field, all the frame tents (and some so-called mountain tents) disappearing as fast as their owners could get them packed; felt quite smug at the time.

    I've reached the stage in my life that when I arrive at an over-night destination I expect to be able to order a couple of espressos, not to be erecting a tent. Actually, I reached that point quite a while back.

    As to are coupes practical. Depends what you want from you transport. But for me, if BMW hadn't offered the coupe I wouldn't have bought a BMW.
     
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    Don’t even think about putting me in there Mr Wynn!!

    These are MB library pictures that just happen to feature a shouts C63 T.

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    A dog has not been in my life since I was 17.

    Yours is a beauty.
     
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    No this is mine. The Dalmatian pics came from MB.

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    Still a beauty, just not as perfectly photographed.
     
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    Convertibles are good too , they make very nice Pick Ups .:)
     
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