We get our new ride!

Part of CJ's work contract here is that we get a company car (no gasoline subsidy though, so it's not all free and awesome). When we were getting ready to move in April, we received a list of cars we could choose from and it was a no brainer. We had a choice of Audis, Volkswagens, and BMW's, sedans, station wagons and sportscars.

There was one car on the list we knew right away we had to have. The new BWM X3 SUV. Oh my! What fun! We went to a BMW dealership in Charlotte to check it out and took one for a test ride and we loved it! With our plans to expand the family in near future, we knew this was the right car. So we placed the order and up till now we have been waiting for delivery. Yes, it took 7 months to get the sucker...

Interestingly pretty much ALL expats from the US ended up ordering that exact car. I guess all of us realized that buying a brand new beamer at home probably would not happen, so this is the best chance to have fun with it... To make things interesting we were told that all X3's, both the US and European models (because they are a little different) are made in Greenville, SC. How funny! We come all the way to Europe to get a car built only a couple of hours away from where we live back in the US...

We were also told that because of the interest in this model and then the long shipping time, we would have to wait till December to get it. In the meantime, we were driving another company car, a nice Mercedes sedan. Well a couple of weeks ago, we finally got word that out car was arriving! 1.5 months early! How fun!

So finally we said goodbye to our temporary ride...

And hello to our fabulous new one! Here she is! What a beauty!

And here is the delivery truck at CJ's office bringing all those X3's for all the expats. Hilarious!!!

Oh and yeah, it's a stick shift.... Good thing that this is what I grew up with and learned to drive on!! Experience with my good ole' VW Jetta is coming in handy.

I can't wait to take this puppy out for a fun ride all over the place!