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Old 1st December 2020, 03:04   #136
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Re: Team BHP USA meets in Detroit

Adding my name to the list.

What : Detroit Team BHP Meet
When : Dec 5th, 2020
Place to Meet : TBD
Time to Meet : 11:30am

1. Mobike008 (Mazda CX-9)
2. Nikhilarni ( Honda Accord)
3. vj123 (VW Golf GTI)
4. Jomz ( Subaru STi)
5. m.shekhar (Tesla Model Y LR/Honda Accord V6)
6. prakyath89 (Dodge Charger Scat Pack)
7. Nitin Reddy (Non-TBHPian) - (Mazda-CX-5)
8. Dilip Reddy ( Non- TBHPian) - Jaguar XE
9. Mpower ( BMW 335i)
10. Jeeva (Mazda mx5 RF)
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Old 2nd December 2020, 10:34   #137
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Re: Team BHP USA meets in Detroit

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Adding my name to the list.

What : Detroit Team BHP Meet
When : Dec 5th, 2020
Place to Meet : TBD
Time to Meet : 11:30am
Wow, this is awesome. I'd love to join too and will be driving from Chicago. It'll be nice to go out for one last drive before storing the car for winter

What : Detroit Team BHP Meet
When : Dec 5th, 2020
Place to Meet : TBD
Time to Meet : 11:30am

1. Mobike008 (Mazda CX-9)
2. Nikhilarni ( Honda Accord)
3. vj123 (VW Golf GTI)
4. Jomz ( Subaru STi)
5. m.shekhar (Tesla Model Y LR/Honda Accord V6)
6. prakyath89 (Dodge Charger Scat Pack)
7. Nitin Reddy (Non-TBHPian) - (Mazda-CX-5)
8. Dilip Reddy (Non- TBHPian) - Jaguar XE
9. Mpower ( BMW 335i)
10. Jeeva (Mazda MX-5 RF)
11. Rohit (BMW M5)

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Old 2nd December 2020, 19:44   #138
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Re: Team BHP USA meets in Detroit

Updated location.

What: Detroit Team BHP Meet
When: Dec 5th, 2020
Place to Meet: Walter P Chrysler Museum parking lot (1 Chrysler Dr, Auburn Hills, MI 48326)
Time to Meet: 11:30am

1. Mobike008 (Mazda CX-9)
2. Nikhilarni ( Honda Accord)
3. vj123 (VW Golf GTI)
4. Jomz ( Subaru STi)
5. m.shekhar (Tesla Model Y LR/Honda Accord V6)
6. prakyath89 (Dodge Charger Scat Pack)
7. Nitin Reddy (Non-TBHPian) - (Mazda-CX-5)
8. Dilip Reddy ( Non- TBHPian) - Jaguar XE
9. Mpower ( BMW 335i)
10. Jeeva (Mazda mx5 RF)
11. Rohit (BMW M5)
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Old 2nd December 2020, 21:08   #139
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Re: Team BHP USA meets in Detroit

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Wow, this is awesome. I'd love to join too and will be driving from Chicago. It'll be nice to go out for one last drive before storing the car for winter


11. Rohit (BMW M5)
Hi Rohit,
Welcome. Would be great to have you too.

Please send me a private message with your contact info. We have a temporary whatsapp group for easier communication.

Looking forward to your M5
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Old 6th December 2020, 09:08   #140
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Re: Team BHP USA meets in Detroit

It was a great meet and drive. Special thanks to everyone who drove from other states. Hopefully we can plan for something better next year.

m.shekhar: You were the first to reach the meeting point this time as well, i will try to be ahead of you the next time.
Mobike008: As usual, thank you for coordinating.
Nikhilarni: Thank you for initiating and organizing the group. Special thanks to your friend for clicking pictures as well.
prakyath89: Thank you for making it from the other side of the state.
Rohit & Dilip Reddy: Had a blast with both of you in the freeway.
Jomz: Thank you for the goodies this time as well.
Jeeva: Thank you for driving this far.
Mpower: Looking forward to see your ride the next time.

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m.shekhar with his Tesla Model Y

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Mobike008 with his Mazda CX-9

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Nikhilarni with his Mercedes GLC

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Dilip Reddy with his Jaguar XE

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prakyath89 with his Dodge Charger Scat Pack

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Rohit with his BMW M5

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Jomz with his Subaru STi

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Jeeva with Mazda mx5 RF

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vj123 with his VW Golf GTI

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I missed clicking a picture of Mpower as he came along Mobike008.

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Old 6th December 2020, 19:36   #141
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Re: Team BHP USA meets in Detroit

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It was a great meet and drive. Special thanks to everyone who drove from other states. Hopefully we can plan for something better next year.

m.shekhar: You were the first to reach the meeting point this time as well, i will try to be ahead of you the next time.
Mobike008: As usual, thank you for coordinating.
Nikhilarni: Thank you for initiating and organizing the group. Special thanks to your friend for clicking pictures as well.
prakyath89: Thank you for making it from the other side of the state.
Rohit & Dilip Reddy: Had a blast with both of you in the freeway.
Jomz: Thank you for the goodies this time as well.
Jeeva: Thank you for driving this far.
Mpower: Looking forward to see your ride the next time. .
Hi Vj123,

Thanks for posting this on the thread and being the camera person. The pictures are awesome.

Thoroughly enjoyed interacting with everyone, and putting faces to names.

Looking forward to a summer meet, Would be glad to help and plan it out.

Cheers
Nikhil
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Old 7th December 2020, 11:22   #142
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Re: Team BHP USA meets in Detroit

Thanks for sharing those pics!

A BHPian meet so far away with that sweet set of cars put a smile on my face
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Old 8th December 2020, 08:42   #143
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Hi Vj123,

Thanks for posting this on the thread and being the camera person. The pictures are awesome.

Thoroughly enjoyed interacting with everyone, and putting faces to names.

Looking forward to a summer meet, Would be glad to help and plan it out.

Cheers
Nikhil
I am glad that you guys made it from other states.

Hopefully our next meet will be on a bright sunny day so that we can have some better pictures
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Old 12th December 2020, 02:40   #144
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Re: Team BHP USA meets in Detroit

I think there is something about Detroit that brings automotive lovers together. It is quite evident from the time it takes to organize a meet. It happened last year in 2019 and something similar happened in 2020 as well.

After organizing > 100 Team BHP meets in the last decade, I know exactly the pain and process of organizing meets. We started the conversation of this meet on November 22, 2020 and we had an actually meet happen within 2 weeks with BHPians driving all the way to Detroit from as far as New Jersey, Chicago and Pittsburgh which I guess was possible due to the Detroit vibe .

It’s difficult to get a meet organized in our homeland in such a short period as deliberations and planning itself takes a few weeks. Our meet happening in 2 weeks is nothing short of luck and sheer determination of all who joined (9 cars and 11 people).

Kudos to the spirit of Detroit and all folks who made this meet happen successfully

As soon as Nikhil initiated the meet, we quickly created an offline group and started deliberations on meeting point as well as the final destination with multiple suggestions pouring in.

There was one tempting option of driving to Michigan International Speedway (MIS) which hosts Nascar each year and is also the fastest Nascar track in US. Coincidentally on the same day of meet planned, MIS had a tempting event of donating a toy and drive on MIS track for 3-laps at highway speeds. Woah! That would have been an awesome experience but, the problem was it was 60 miles ( from the meeting point) exactly in the opposite direction to original destination planned which was Port Huron so we dropped the idea as it would be too much of driving.

I started from home along with a non-tbhpian Dilip who lives in same community (Driving a supercharged 3.5 Liter Jaguar XE to pick up Deep (Mpower) as he packed his cars (BMW’s) for winter. He arrived in his Cruze and we took a quick snap with our 3 cars together in the Meijer parking lot where we left his car before heading together with Deep riding with me.

We decided to meet at the iconic location of Fiat Chrysler Automotive (FCA) campus in Auburn Hills, Michigan and lined up our cars o take few pictures outside the FCA Museum (You can see Maserati written on the building in some of the cars line-up pics).

After spending some time taking pics and all trembling in the cold, vj123 took us to John Dodge’s home (owner of Dodge Motor Company which is now under the umbrella of FCA) which is somewhere inside the FCA campus which is massive campus and covered over at least 10 miles radius.

After taking a few pics at this memorable location, we headed to another location on a golf course which was beautiful for another photoshoot before heading to a local McD outlet where we picked up our burgers to have it on the go. From here on, we drove the 65 miles to Port Huron non-stop. Port Huron is one of the borders to Canada (I think probably the closest border to Canada). Even Detroit downtown is the border to Canada but, it is slightly longer to cross over (maybe ~2 miles) but, Port Huron seems to be less than a mile to the other side (If the weather is good, I can swim across ... LOL!).

We enjoyed the views by the lake in freezing weather (it was -3C) and my hands literally were burning from cold after taking the video at the Port Huron water-side where we all huddled up for some chit chat and pics.

We drove around a bit in the beautiful quaint town (summers is usually awesome in Port Huron) we stopped one last time near where all boats were stacked up for a final shoot before calling our goodbyes and heading our own way.

Highlights:

A) Rohit’s M5 with a V10 510 BHP engine. Sweet!
B) PJ’s Dodge Scatpack with a Semi Engine-485 horses ( I am a fan of these muscle cars).
C) Manindra’s lovely new Tesla Y.
D) Last but, not the least the cutie pie of the whole rides (Mazda MX5 RF)- Smallest car came from furthest distance-NJ!!!

It was a fantastic meet which clubbed a real drive to make it a complete meet. A big shout out to all folks who came from other states and thanks to vj123 for being the local guide and taking us to some nice memorable automotive historical locations.

P.S: Sorry, I'm a bit lazy to title each of these phone pics but, hopefully you will get the sequence and where it was clicked based on the report above...Also, you can click the pics to see the larger version .

P.S 2 : Detroit guys, lets plan a meet in winters, maybe even a house meet for dinner or something would be great.

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Old 12th December 2020, 06:19   #145
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Re: Team BHP USA meets in Detroit

Sorry for the back to back posts. Here are some videos of the meet

Posing outside John Dodge's home

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Port Huron, Michigan



FCA Campus, Auburn Hills, Michigan



Mazda CX-9 Passing Video Shoot



This is how a V10 M5 engine with 500+ horses under the hood sound





Dodge Charger Scatpack with a Hemi Engine under the hood and 485 horses



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Old 12th December 2020, 07:29   #146
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What a fun weekend it was, well, aside from the freezing weather of course. It was my first TBHP meet here in the US and it couldn’t have been better. The convoy of 9 cars stayed super organized and we had a good variety of cars from the ND2 MX-5, the STi, the venerable GTI and of course the de facto muscle cars of ‘Murica and Germany.

You know you’re a TBHPian and in good company when owners promptly switched over to winter tires when weather gets cold. That is the way to go and I’m shocked North East US states doesn’t have a policy that mandates the use of winter tires unlike EU countries. I can only imagine the fun Jomz, Jeeva and Prakyath especially with his Charger Scat Pack are going to have during snow. Wish I could do that too, but I’m just too scared and prefer to hibernate my M5 during winter instead.

Shout out to Nikhil, Mobike008 and vj123 for initiating & organizing the meet. Conversations inevitably turned to cars, bhp, mods and everything between, which was a such a welcome change from the trying times we currently live in. A mention has to be made to Jeeva, who for those of you not familiar with the cities in the US, drove the equivalent of Bangalore to Mumbai just for this meet!

Loved the exhaust comparison between the V8 and the V10, a dying breed of naturally aspirated, high horsepower engines. The V8 is throatier and has more bass while the V10 is a screamer. What do you guys think?
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Old 13th December 2020, 08:58   #147
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Some pictures which i clicked in our touchpoints:

Meadow Brook Hall:
- Its the fourth largest historic house museum in the country.
- It was the estate of one of the world's wealthiest and influential women of her time (Matilda Dodge Wilson).

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John Dodge House:
- It was a weekend retreat home for John Francis Dodge (co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company) and his wife Matilda Dodge Wilson.

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Blue Water Bridge:

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Port Huron River Street Marina:

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Old 13th December 2020, 21:41   #148
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I liked this shot where almost everyone came into line of sight.

VJ123 was in the lead so he was ahead and Manindra was I reckon behind him



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Old 13th December 2020, 21:52   #149
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Just when I was losing my mind over not seeing people for a long time due to COVID, the talk of a socially distant outdoor meet sounded super exciting! Thanks to Nikhil, Avinash and VJ for organizing this event. As soon as Nikhil initiated the possibility of a meet and drive, people were quick to respond and this happened within two weeks. Special mention to Jeeva who drove all the way from Jersey! This was a super fun drive except for the freezing cold and windy weather of Detroit.

I really enjoy driving to Detroit whenever possible as I always spot a few gems along the way. This time we spotted a widebody hellcat charger testing near the Chrysler factory. It was just fun to get to know all the TBHP veterans and look at some amazing variety of cars. From German, Japanese, American, and dare I say Indian (Jaguar ) we had it all. The exhaust note comparison was super fun. The M5 sounds like a proper track car and Rohit has done an amazing job maintaining this beauty. We are now just waiting for the weather to get better to do this again. Until next time!
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I would keep reading about the T-Bhpians meeting up and other events across various cities, and always wanted to attend one.

This being my first one, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I was looking up the various threads and that lazy Friday, just about thought to myself, why not post on the threads.

Me being in Pittsburgh, there wasn't any existing meetup threads in this area. So what was the closest : Detroit Meet thread. No sooner that I posted there, Mobike008 responded in the tune like : "aadmi pittsburgh mein, aur meeting detroit ka thread mein post karta hain "

We quickly got on a call, created the whatsapp group and by Saturday, the group started growing.

Avinash's motivation to kick start it is super appreciated.

Various folks started responding to the thread, and got added to the group, the date ( 5th Dec ) and location were finalized, the rest was history. It was impressive that this meet was planned and executed under 2 weeks.

Coming to the Drive itself, Jeeva did the most of the driving in his fun MX5 RF, all the way from NJ.

Was glad he was able to stop over at my place and drive together the next morning.

Thats us at a rest stop enroute
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Shout out to Vibin for coordinating and selflessly taking all the pics while we were chatting about.

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The drive to Port Huron was fun, with each one passing each other and waving by.

We all thought that Jomz had a GoPro attached to the rear of his car, and like movie stunts, I guess we all drove upto his car, did a pass and moved away for the other car to come in frame, only to be told that it wasn't recording
That was hilarious.

Every one had such classy cars and immaculately maintained. Looking forward to the next meeting during warmer weather.

Some of the Passing shots

Maninder in his Tesla Y
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Avinash in his CX-9
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Jomz in his STI
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Prakyath in his Scat Pack
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Jeeva in his MX5 RF
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Rohit in his M5
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Dilip in his Jag Xe
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