Thanks guys for the warm welcome. I met Stormster at service station and after a chat thought, "there must be more like minded people out there," so found M5Board almost at random... so here I am. I run a small medical company (you can guess the name) in the UK supplying specialist medical services (training and equipment and so on) to anyone who works in a remote or hostile environment. Anyway, I'm a specialist pre-hospital emergency medicine doctor first and foremost, and love driving the M5.
I 'respond' on an unpaid and voluntary basis for my local ambulance service to emergency cases (as part of a local charity) where I can offer additional skills and interventions to my colleague paramedics. Typically these include serious road traffic collisions, farm accidents, industrial entrapments, major burns, paediatric emergencies, falls from height, shootings and stabbings - you get the general idea. My company provides me with the M5 in which to respond. I've had the requisite driver training (at various times from police, fire and ambulance service instructors) and drive on 'blues & twos.' Clearly there is particular responsibility driving on blue lights and you might be surprised at how low my top speeds are. On the other hand, what an awesome car for safe overtakes!
My 'M' button is my '999' button and I get 9.6 miles per gallon driving to emergencies.
When I'm at scene, I often end up accompanying the casualty(ies) to hospital in the ambulance. I then need to get someone from the emergency services to drive my car to hospital. Funnily enough, since I've had the M5, I've not struggled to find a volunteer.
The vehicle livery was designed by me and, yes, I did take particular care to protect the M5 badge!
