Paul Tan on the Automotive Industry
A old series of short promotional films by BMW starring Clive Owen as a driver. The Driver is stopped by a group of armed men demanding he hands over a harmless man he is driving whom they accuse of smuggling diamonds. He then discovers the man has swallowed the diamonds.
Video: BMW The Hire Short Films – Ambush
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After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
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Another good short movie, reminds me of James Bond's Tomorrow Never Dies! This is so far the nicest and coolest 7 Series ever! These few short movies would really tempt car buyers to go for BMW, at least for me, it really would!
good car chasing action…mmm..i guess he turn off the air bag switch…:-)
awwww…. the poor 740… got crashed till tat bad… hmmm…. but this's a great clip… I like it… BMW The Ultimate Driving Machine.
this clip is pretty good…da driver is smart…no much ppl would hv thought of ramming of da enemy's headlights before barging through da closed road as in logic if da road is closed…it would not be safe to drive through…and as expected da road had been occupied by some large machines and also without any street light which adds to da danger driving without ur headlights and high speed…well da robbers are lame enough to use a van to chase a & series…
true, the vid almost chg my mind of contemplating a bmw over an evo9.
the vid is most awsm ! coupled wit the recent bmw testing vid tht paul js put up make meinto believing tht bmw is indeed capable of pulling out tis kind of stunt in the vid without much camera or movie trick.
Brilliant Masterpiece Work
i want to add sthg.
Clive owen is great. hes the soft charisma too. if u like king arthur i think he was good in it
does anyone has any idea if an evo9 can pull such a stunt like bmw does
Smart, he broke their headlights and used it to his advantage!
The movie is carefully made to highlight:
- Accelleration
- Manouverability
- Toughness
- Headlights
- ABS, EBD (Stability Assistance, if any)
What other unique selling points were included in this movie? The director is the famous Frankenheimer (Google him). The website had good downloads and I have them all. When they offered the DVD collectors edition I ordered it from BMW North America. Came to about RM110 or something.
The movie is good. But, will I buy a BMW that can hardly out handled a van ? What makes is that van ? Do they sell it here ?