State of the machine

Our Rally-car Bruno received an important upgrade: Thanks to Fritz, our mechanic-in-chief, our car is save on the roads ofKyrgyzstan and we do not have to worry about stones, pit holes or other obstacles on the roads - at least we hope so! An additional bar and a sump guard will keep our car from damages.

Another important component is our roof rack. It was shortened, strengthened and adapted for our trip, and will host our spare tyres, petrol cans and camping-gear.

Working on our Fiat Stilo

Thanks to Fritz and Christian for the huge support!

We are in a newspaper: Freistädter Rundschau

The front pages of daily newspapers are not only for the rich & famous: The Baatarnators are now featured on one as well :-)

The Freistädter Rundschau (local Austrian daily newspaper) ran an article about our adventure on the 30th/2nd of May 2014:

Freistädter Rundschau: "Mit dem Fiat Stilo von London in die Mongolei" (Sorry, German only)

Thanks Roland Wolf for writing this excellent article!

First car-preparing-session

Last weekend we had our first car-pimping-session, where we removed one back-row-seat, checked the electronics and made some pictures for the press.

As you can see on the pictures below the exhaust is in pretty bad shape, so we will replace it with a brand new one.

After we checked out our freshly-delivered lights (more on them later), took some pictures and put a grid on the car to fit sponsor-logos, there was a small technical glitch with the ignition-electronics and Bruno refused to start :-(

We later found out that the reason was a malfunctioning car-key. We threw it away and everything is fine now.

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Working on our Fiat Stilo, photoshooting and the first "accident".

Million Dollar Rally Car

Like the Million Dollar Homepage we have divided up our Fiat-Stilo-Racer called Bruno into squares and created rectangles as advertisement spaces for sponsors and generally good people that support Cool Earth with us.

If you want to see your company logo riding on our Rally car towards Ulaanbaatar or if you want to put some words-of-wisdom or a picture of your fiancé on our car to drive to the Gobi dessert, just get in touch with us and we will find the right square for you :-)

For a contribution starting at € 20, depending on the square-position and -size, it will feel just like you would go on the Mongol Rally on your own. We have white paint-pencils for your custom drawings, and we can cut images from white Rally-ready sticky-film.