Total BMW Magazine feature

WOW!!!!
There is a whole heap of emothion floating around in this post, and taking a view detached I can see Donnies point as well as Drew's
Regrettably the magazine is a business, full stop its there to make money as a by product it features cars that we to a man are 100% passionate about and completely enthused over. Sadly it really is too far North for the majority of mags to cover in a traditional sense, however if you work with these guys there are more ways to skin cats than this.
Donnie, I know your feelings on this as they mirror my own as we met in a very soggy Calander LMAO your passion and devotion plus perspective is spot on. but, as I work weekly in London or South Wales yet live in Ayrshire, the travel is a real expense and a killer.

Andy, there is a huge following in Scotland and to dismiss a trip as ten cars and a dyno is unfair.
Ten cars and a dyno an e28, e36, e32, B12 ekat then it will be "more" viable. Plus Andy, I seek out locations to photo both cars and the geography with digital cameras we can do the grunt in some of the instances Pete330 has astounded me with some of the shots he took of his 323i couple they are truly worthy of a mag placement in his attention to detail, working in colaboration you do the prose we can work on the pics and everyone benefits. I (we) are only at the end of a phone on location at meets (in the pub more likely!) to inject the feel. It has to be worth discussion?

NOISUFNOC wrote: Well they couldnt be bothered sending anyone north of the border for the rolling road day either

Really? Well at 40 pence a mile from anywhere in
their office in Bath you do the maths.

That's around £250-300 in petrol expenses alone.
Add to that a day rate for a photographer (£300) and
the same again for a journo and you'll see why
nobody does r/r days in Scotland. Sorry, but £1000 to
photograph 10 cars on a dyno is rather steep! Plus
do you really expect two guys to drive to Scotland and
back in one day for a job lasting 2 hours?

Had the same guys up to my car in the NE and couldn't disagree more.

I found the reporter Andy E. very knowledgable & enthusiastic about BMW's & cars in general. They were up for two days, shooting my two friends Baurs on the second day.

We tried to make them feel welcome, taking them to our local pub & having lunch with them (which they insisted paying for). Andy E. has even taken the trouble to send me an out of print copy of a TBMW magazine which I was after.

Shallow? Not to me & my friends.

There are always two sides to things like this & your remarks probably say more about your depth of character & space utilisation than theirs.

As my old mum used to say, "If you've nothing nice to say about someone, don't say anything".



Edited by AndyS

Well they couldnt be bothered sending anyone north of the border for the rolling road day either