Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:13:00 +0100

["Grauw, de H.(BNS SU NO)" <h.degrauw@xxxxxxx>]

Jay Fogle wrote:

>Uh, by the way. They have ESSO gas commercials here on Telly in
>Europe that show one of our friends (Emo Fittipaldi) pulling in to
t>he pumps in his BMW race car. He asks the attendant to fill it up -
>with Diesel. That's right it's a TDS and it was some sort of European
>Rallye Champion in 96 or 97. I believe that series was also "DTM" or
>"STW" Sanctioned. Weird huh?

Couple of things, if we're talking about the same commercial:
That friend wasn't Emerson Fittipaldi, it's Hans Stuck jr. He's been driving
BMWs since I don't know when. Fittipaldi is a Mercedes Benz importer in
Brazil (oh yeah, he won the Indy 500 too ;-))

As for the car, if I remember correctly, it was an E36 body with the new
320d 4 cylinder engine - modified of course. It won the 24 hr endurance race
on the Nurburgring in 1998.

But I might be a raging fool.
hans
92 320i
98 Golf TDi

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