Cars & Coffee
Cars & Coffee is a phenomenon that has blown over from America to Europe. In the United States, in almost every city you have a gathering of special cars, often on Sunday mornings in a large parking lot. Sometimes this is monthly, and in some cities it is so popular that people do it weekly. These events often share the same name, Cars & Coffee, because it says exactly what it is. Owners of special bolides get together for a cup of coffee, pleasant conversation with fellow enthusiasts and, of course, to admire other people’s cars.
For several years now, we have also been seeing such events more and more frequently in the Netherlands. Several companies and organizations have already used the name for an untied gathering of a group of special cars. Whereas other events for this target group often have to take into account registration, entry fees and a daily schedule with a route to be driven, Cars & Coffee is all about being free to visit or not and to leave whenever you feel like it.
Now, we had taken our Audi RS5 away late last week for some updates for upcoming wedding season, and this set a ball rolling that eventually caused people to be able to see two of our cars at a large gathering of exclusive cars. In fact, we brought our Audi to Baan Velgen in Rotterdam, a company that specializes in customizing exclusive cars. From a set of new rims to a lowering and a new exhaust system, they know what to do. Baan Velgen is also the co-organizer of Cars & Coffee Netherlands and this year’s season opener was held at their doorstep last weekend.
On Friday, we had a photo shoot with our Audi TTS Roadster and Aston Martin DBS. Our photographer told us that he was also a photographer for Baan Rims and the Cars & Coffee event and asked us if we would like to come as well. Of course we like this; our love for cars goes beyond our own fleet and the expectation was that there would be a whole bunch of different supercars at the coffee. Unfortunately, we couldn’t go ourselves because we had scheduled viewings for the Audi TTS, but since our other Audi was already there, we thought it would be a great opportunity to show our cars to a larger audience. So we decided to have our photographer drive the Aston Martin to the event. He parked the car nicely next to our other beauty and put our promotional license plates on it. Of course, he also shot a series of photos, which we didn’t want to withhold from you.
