5th Gear tonight - I'm on it!

[biggerbigben 0]

Well I tell a lie, I'm not on it but the company I work for is.. MBW.. Mercedes-Benz World, I've been there for just over 2 weeks and on my first week I had to assist 5th gear for the filming of the new ML AMG around our tracks... check it out.. you'll prob see a bit of the amazing building that I'm very lucky to be working in..

 

Let me know what you think!

 

Ben

[keithabc216v 0]

do ya get to drive that amg 4x4 ?

[diggerbucket 0]

Pretty cool, what do you do there?

 

Take the Corrado on that slippy roundabout thing 8)

[DUB 0]

It was feckin cool, what is it you do there?????? got any jobs going?????? get your rado sidewayz round that roundabout and get the vid up on here

[Wendy 0]

I saw it too.

 

What a fab building and contents were not too bad either !

Probably would be quite an interesting day out - to the Musuem aspect, let alone to take something out on the track - dependant on times allowed - might actually be a cheap way to have a bit of track time experience.

 

So come on Ben - what do you do there - apart from showing Camera Crew around?

[ZippyVR6 0]

He's the bit of fluff that shows people around! :D

[biggerbigben 0]

Hey all..

 

Sorry for the delay.. I can't access the forum at work, one down side, but I'm back home now :)

 

I work as a media and marketing manager there. Basically I look after all the AV gear, compile content for the plasma's and look after the driving experience DVD's for the media side of the job.. thats prob 40% of my day. Then I do 60% marketing. Small team of 4 and we basically do everything to market the place. Just starting a massive project, which will be an event of some sort in June, can't really say any more than that for the time being.

 

Amazing job, very lucky to land such a position and although I'm only 3 weeks in I can see myself being there for a while to come :) Even though I'm still a dub head at heart, I suppose they are still german cars so its all good :)

 

I'm driving a C55 AMG tomorrow around the tracks. Looking forward to that so much. Wonder how it will feel performance wise to the corrado ?

 

Anyway I'm going to try and get a discount for you guys for the driving experiences, will let you know.. need to schmoooze with a few people to make that happen. We are in the process of trying to get SLR rides around the track - would this interest people, for say 20 to 30 quid for a quick blast in one of the fastest production cars in the world? (please let me know as its my idea!?)

 

Anyway will let you guys know how a C55 AMG feels going sideways!! :)

 

Ben

[ZippyVR6 0]

Id be up for that.

 

Sounds like a dream job.

[Walesy 0]

Yeah nice one, sounds like a great Job.

[pkripper 0]

One of my mates is a Merc sales manager and I am going soon for the day as a big spender. Apparantly he gets a budget for customers.

 

Hope to see you there.

[biggerbigben 0]

yeah it is a pretty awesome job! very lucky!

 

pkripper,

 

let me know mate.. i'll try and be around.. do you know when your coming down?

[corozin 0]

It'll be interesting to see if you can get the AMG sideways, because I thought that even the AMGs have a nannying Traction control & stability control fitted to prevent exactly that kinda stuff.

 

Oh well, there's always the handbrake I suppose :thumb right:

[pkripper 0]

yeah it is a pretty awesome job! very lucky!

 

pkripper,

 

let me know mate.. i'll try and be around.. do you know when your coming down?

 

Will let you know, cheers ben.

[DUB 0]

I'd be up for the blast round the track dude

[Wendy 0]

Count me in for a balst on the track too