Who and what is The Lifestyle Driver? That’s a fairly easy quoestion. I am a dude that has a passion for cars, fashion and travel, which the name The Lifestyle Driver defines. The word lifestyle is a broad word, but both fashion and travel goes under it and the word driver, well that is a
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Mar
Mar
The Batmobile (now also called, The Fatmobile), 2004 BMW 645Ci, started getting SMG transmission problems 4-5 years ago, first symptoms came during the fall of 2018. The project is still going, but seems that we have solved the original issue, but because the issue was for such a long time we now have to repair
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Feb
Feb
I have realized that I have become more and more against buying a new car. Sounds a bit harsh but the more that I think about it the more it makes sense. Specially when I think about high-end cars like Mercedes S or BMW 7-series or GT cars. This blog started with me thinking about
13
Feb
Feb
In the last text I wrote about how a 20 year old car does not feel 20 years old the same way as a 20 year old car felt back in the year 2000. But, a big BUT, old and feeling old does not necesecerily mean bad, because a 20 year old car in 2000,
12
Feb
Feb
We live in a time where an old car is not neccesarry old as we picture it. Let’s say around 2000 a 20 year old car was really old, but now in 2023 a 20 year old car is from 2003 which is not old in the same way. And today if you want a
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Oct
Oct
When I started to look for some new wheels and tires for my car with Autotek back in 2018 we agreed that my car needed not only good looking wheels but it needed high technology light weight wheels and we ended up with the TSW Bathurst wheels that are rotary forged, which make them very light and
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Sep
Sep
Read about the UPDATE HERE! This is the story that started back in the beginning of 2019, a long long nerv wrecking frustrating search of the BMW 645 SMG transmission problem so that I would be able to get it repaired. The car has been back and forth to a total of 5 repair shops
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Aug
Aug
I have always had a passion for cars as long as I can remember. I can find cool cars in any category from tiny hot hatches to big monster trucks. It seems that sadly for many people the price of the car makes it cool, for me price has nothing to do with how sweet
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Aug
Aug
Some photos taken by Jari Photography back in march of 2016 from graffiti wall in Martinlaakso, Vantaa, Finland, before the wall and the old shopping center wash demolished.www.jari.photography
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Aug
Aug
Here are all the specs and factory options for my 1989 BMW 3 series E30 coupe. My E30 is a 1989 316i Coupe with 5 speed manual transmission. The interesting part about my car is that it came with a lot of extra options that normally are only seen in the 320 or 325, electric