For sure, I mean it!
Oooooffff, careful, she may like that minivan a little too much and want to trade the Jeep in

My wife always swore them off until we had one as a rental, then I got the old "Hmm, I can see why people like these...". Don't worry, though, she's still driving her Impreza!
Haha! She never actually ended up with a minivan, after all. They couldn't fit one (not that she ever even asked for one, it was simply the cheapest car she saw on the Hertz website). She ended up driving a god awful Hyundai Elantra equipped with hubcaps!! I'm pretty sure the only option on the car was power windows. Just an awful, awful car. Luckily she only needed it for a few days.
She took my car to work today, while I drove the M3 to work. The Accord is getting the windshield replaced tomorrow, finally, after showing up last week to have it replaced and being told that the replacement was damaged in transit. :facepalm:
Her Jeep is having the sunroof replaced on Wednesday. Then, hopefully, we'll not have to deal with replacing any more auto glass for the foreseeable future.
Got the exhaust installed on the M3 early last week, but still have some minor adjusting to do in order to get the tips as level as I can. Unfortunately, and I knew this possibility existed going in, the tips do point down ever so slightly. That was the risk I ran in buying the exhaust I went with. Other M3 owners have said they were able to alleviate the pointing down of the tips by replacing the exhaust section 2 with an aftermarket option. Not sure I want to do that just yet, so I may end up paying someone to cut off the tips and weld them back on so they aim straight back.
Before I do that, however, I need to replace the passenger side exhaust hanger and potentially shim all 3 hangers a bit in order to get the exhaust to sit more level. That may also help with the angle of the tips, so we shall see.
Here are some crude, rushed photos I managed to take:
This past Saturday, I participated in the local BMW Ultimate Driving Experience. We got to autocross the new 2019 330i:
I went along with 2 buddies of mine. I had the fastest lap of the 3 of us (we're the first 3 names on the list):
For anyone interested, here is my lap (trust me, the video doesn't do it any justice...we were moving much quicker than it appeared...oh and excuse the wind noise, it was very cold and very windy that morning):
https://vimeo.com/333098415
After the autocross event was completed, we were able to test drive a variety of vehicles on public roads with no BMW rep in the car. From the available vehicles, we really wanted to drive the M240i, but the waiting list was starting to creep up because EVERYONE wanted to drive that car. So instead of waiting, we took a BMW X6 50i (4.4L twin turbo V8 w/ 450 hp) out for a joy ride. I chose this mainly because my wife is obsessed with these and my buddies were all for it:
This thing is ridiculous. I was able to hit 102 on the highway with minimal effort in a stupidly fast amount of time. You know you're driving a powerful vehicle when you floor it while you're already at highway cruising speeds and the thing lurches back and just takes off, literally throwing your head back. Just unbelievably powerful!!
That ended up being the only one we test drove, but I did take some photos of the new X7 (mind the huge *** grille) and M850i (unreal!!):
A great morning, all in all!