Beautiful car! Good move blacking out those side-vents.
First of all, you can break-in the car any way you want. What I'm recommending will give you an engine that consumes the minimum amount of oil, and maintains it's performance for the maximum time. I've done quite a bit of research on proper break-ins. I've read articles, talked to some very experienced engine people, and scanned a lot of Boards. I put 130,000 miles on my M5 and the oil consumption did not increase one bit from 5,000 to 130,000.
You basically want to follow the recommended break-in procedure, but make sure you change out the oil.
For the break-in period, you want to vary the engine speed (rpm), vehicle speed, and gear selection as much as possible without exceeding the recommended maximum rpm. Vary the throttle position also, but you do not want to go more than about half-throttle. Yes, you want to drive like a grandmother for the first few thousand miles.
The purpose of the break-in is to allow mating surfaces to wear as evenly as possible under all the operating conditions to maximize the engine and transmission efficiency. One of the worst ways to break-in the car is to take a long highway trip at a constant speed. Another very bad thing to do is to drive 5 miles every morning. The absolute worst way is to run it on a race track, so don't buy any 'journalist demo' cars.
Your engine will experience the most wear in the first couple minutes after a cold start. Always take it easy until the oil temperature reaches operating. The ideal way to break-in the engine/tranny is to drive a few long trips on the backroads, varying speed, rpm, gears and load. I've done this with both my M5 and Panny, and the oil consumption is minimal (1/4 Qt in 5,000 miles).
Once you've driven a couple thousand miles, or whatever the recommended break-in mileage is, change out the oil. I've reviewed a number of oil analyses on break-in oil after a few thousand miles, and I've talked with a number of experts. You definitely want to do this - there is all sorts of crap in the oil at this point, and you don't want this stuff when you start pushing the car. After you've changed the oil, you can start gradually increasing rpm and throttle position. I waited until 3K miles before I went full-throttle. Very tough to do, but you just have to find an excuse to take some long trips.
Bedding in the brakes is a different story. Hard stops from 30,60, 80 mph to heat up the brakes and 'match' the calipers and rotors. You can read up on this as well.
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Beautiful car. I like the cosmetic mods. 
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