Total BMW Magazine feature

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

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

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?

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?

Hi, guys, just to keep the record straight, I did try and contact Andy at Total a number of times, by phone and emails,  with no response, that said Andy has now been in touch, since the posting, and Ive now cooled down!. So apoligies for being a bit aggressive on my first posting. Saying that, it doesnt take a lot to keep in touch, does it!

Aye, OK AndyS, but the point I'm making is, we probably all buy the BMW Mags', we mostly make the effort to get to the bigger events (Gayden, Donnington etc), but are left mostly to our own devices up in the far distant remote north. And we all spend a lot of time on our cars, therefore making a point that the north and Scottish members are as important part of the club as everywhere else. Cheers

Hi NOISUFNOC,  Good point, there seems to be a barrier, over the border, regards Donnie

How about a nice big clubs feature in F&M - use the existing Scottish car mag? Maybe even a supplement - F&M BMW

Best way to get more Northern content in the BMWCC mag is to send it in. Mag doesn't write itself.

Is anyone co-ordinating Scottish content submission to the BMWCC mag at the mo?

AndyS in the middle of things again...

As noisufnoc said it was TBMW that showed the interest in coming up for an event, such as this one being held. Sunstroke john adds...you may be right mate Or it could be mere speculation from some of our members who knows??

If the flight to come up here is only £59...I'll pay for it. I'm incensed that TBMW are leaving us out, plenty of times I've seen RR's spreads with not even 10 cars. FYI,there may be only 10 cars for the RR, but a lot more are expected to attend.


The latest is that we've to submit pics and a write up for the clubmag...fair enough. If TBMW are requesting the same then a copy of the mag to us all who attend !!!

Pete, I know we/you always sumbit articles to the club mag..and it's great that we get some decent recogntion for the events we/you arrange.

However, it'd be nice for us to have someone else i.e TBMW to do a spread on us...thats all. From a commercial aspect it would do no harm whatsoever for a glossy to attend a meet such as this one, no?

TIko