X6 Sighting on the 101

[simchiner]

I am in Hong kong and for the past 2 days megaupload.com been telling me all the downlaod quota for hong kong has been used and I have to download and install their toolbar.

Can someone please put the clip on youTube or some other website so members from non-us countries can download or view the clips too?

[jaba]

Originally Posted by Bimmer360

you speak pretty good english actually. Im a pinoy myself from Mandaluyong, where u from originally? BTW, i noticed when you are next to the X6, the guy applied the brakes, did he ever notice you guys filming it?

I do a decent job covering my accent when i speak straight english. It just gets tiring thinking in both languages.

When I first approached the vehicle from behind, I thought it was an E70. After trailing it for a few minutes, I was like "wait a minute, that looks like an X6 and that isn't suppose to be on the road yet". As soon as i was able to pull next to him, I told my sister to take out her camera and take pictures. The driver obviously noticed the first flash and stepped on it. He most likely hit 130 cause it took me quite a while to catch him. At a cruising speed of 120 he was still pulling away. Also, I was afraid of sustaining speeds of over 120 with the risks involved especially having my whole family with me.

When I finally got the opportunity to overtake him, I guess he realized that I was just excited and passionate about seeing the car when he saw that I was in a bmw as well (I guess seeing my headlights from his rear view mirror is a give away that I was in a bmw). I gave him a thumbs up. He acknowledged by waiving back.

After that, he gave me a good glimpse of the car by letting me overtake and slowing down a couple of times. From that time on, I felt it innapprpriate for me to draw attention to him through my camera's flashes so I told my sister to catch a few videos instead.

There were a couple of cars that noticed the X6. Coincidentally, they all belonged to the bmw family as well - a mini cooper S and another blue E53. They, however, didn't keep up as long as I did. I was lucky enough to escape from getting caught speeding considering we were on the 101 and it was tis the season to meet quotas.

SIM - I can upload the files again tonight and provide you the link if you need it.

[Steved]

jaba - you didn't say which car you were driving (apart from I suspect it was an E53 X5). Which engine do you have?

[jaba]

Forgot to mention that, was in a 4.4. I would have struggled or would have never kept up in a 3.0. I was significantly heavier by around 500lbs with the people and luggage I had.

[James Douglas 2007]

Thanks for the videos.

Since Megaupload wouldn't download faster than 50 KB/s, it took me about 45 minutes to download both files. I decided to compress them and re-upload:

Part 1 (8.6 MB):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X7ZY1E3V

or

http://www.filefactory.com/file/f71a45/

Part 2 (10 MB):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XUQYHZ7F

or

http://www.filefactory.com/file/9da8da/