Week Twenty-One The Smugness of a Bimmer Bwoy!

I missed the motoring opportunity of a lifetime relatively recently, as it was the very day I was to drive my son to university in Norwich. It was at Kenwood’s magnificent UK HQ building, to see the astonishing BMW i8, which was there for reason I know not what. Since then, I have seen one of these out on the road, the North Circular A406 to be exact, near Golders Green. I have also seen an i3 while driving around looking at fisheries for the Anglers Mail. Thing is, both drivers of these early-adopter electric hybrid zoomy cars (as against milk floats) had this ineffable air of utter smugness about them. Maybe because they were golfing fans? Because that same trundle around the countryside took me through the town with signposts in yellow, provided by the AA, for directing the PGA golf championships traffic. Basically, it was BMW parking signs or those for all other cars! Even more reasons to be utterly smug.
We have car audio two events this week, one well established local, by old superstars of the car audio trade, in the shape of a Huets Ice Night on the Thursday 21st May and the huge national fabulousness that is the Modded Nats.
The biggie for our community is the EMMA UK Round 2 car audio contest or sound off. This year, as well as having dB Drag racing and Propper Droppers bass lunacy running side by side, which are the other two mad bass car audio contests, we also see a new whole contest with EMMA. Yes, as well as running the EMMA SPL or ESPL and Sound Quality contests, there is a new, more showy format to be called ESQL or ‘˜EMMA, Sound Quality, Loud’. This is about the system sounding good for a crowd as well as going loud and sounding good inside. In the bonkers end of this contest in some territories, these rounds involve hiring dancers and cheerleaders to rev up the crowd.
I will happily dance for a fee, but I only do implied topless
Adam Rayner On Line Editor!