NSXCB dinner including visit to Mugen Euro Factory.

[NSX 2000]

On Friday 15th April 2011, you are invited to the inaugural NSXCB dinner with special guest to be held at the The Roade House Restaurant & Hotel, 16 High Street, Roade, Northampton, NN7 2NW.
In addition, we have the opportunity to be the guests of Mugen at their Northamptonshire factory in Northampton on the afternoon of Friday 15th April 2011.

[Senninha]

Hotel booked for the evening ...

Any more details on timings etc?

regards, Paul

[NSX 2000]

I've confirmed times with MUGEN and costs with our venue so we are all set to go :thumbsup:

This is the venue for our dinner http://www.roadehousehotel.co.uk/

Below are the details I've received from the venue

I confirm that this booking has been made for you and that we are provisionally holding all 10 rooms for you.

I understand that you would like your guests to order on the night and I suggest that we offer a choice of 3 starters and 3 main courses together with a vegetarian option if required. As soon as I have the menu finalised for April I will send you a suggested menu. This will be in the latter part of March.

I suggest that anyone staying has our dinner, bed and breakfast rate which is 133 pounds per couple. For those people not staying, three course and coffee would be 32.50 per person.

As far as the rooms are concerned I can hold them for you until Friday 17th March. However where all or most of the rooms are block booked in advance we have to change our normal cancellation policy and after that date I would ask you to accept responsibilty for the cancellation charge for any rooms confirmed by that date and subsequently cancelled. The cancellation charge would be 77 pounds per room.

To book a room at the venue you need to quote "NSXCB dinner" but you had better be quick as 3 are alredy gone!

[NSX 2000]

Please put your name below plus number of guests so I can get an idea of numbers

Thanks Paul.

1) NSX 2000 +1
2)

[ollie]

1) NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie

[Dragonlady]

1) NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie
3) Dragonlady +1

[Chris B N]

Hi Paul please include me in th numbers visit and dinner
i will book the hotel

Chris

[Senninha]

1) NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie
3) Dragonlady +1
4) Chris BN
5) Senninha 1 x visit 2 x meal (plus 2 little ones :))

[Hagasan]

1) NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie
3) Dragonlady +1
4) Chris BN
5) Senninha 1 x visit 2 x meal (plus 2 little ones :))
6) Hagasan visit & meal

[Nytram]

1) NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie
3) Dragonlady +1
4) Chris BN
5) Senninha 1 x visit 2 x meal (plus 2 little ones :))
6) Hagasan visit & meal
7) Nytram +1 visit & meal Hotel booked

[howellr]

1) NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie
3) Dragonlady +1
4) Chris BN
5) Senninha 1 x visit 2 x meal (plus 2 little ones :))
6) Hagasan visit & meal
7) Nytram +1 visit & meal Hotel booked
8) howellr (visit only as I can't commit to the dinner but would like a visit to the 'factory')

[howellr]

What time will the visit start (I have looked but can't see the start time) ?
Regards

[Dragonlady]

NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie
3) Dragonlady +1 (hotel booked)
4) Chris BN
5) Senninha 1 x visit 2 x meal (plus 2 little ones :))
6) Hagasan visit & meal
7) Nytram +1 visit & meal Hotel booked
8) howellr (visit only as I can't commit to the dinner but would like a visit to the 'factory')


Paul I hope you don't mind but whilst I was booking the hotel, I asked if they could include a vegetarian option for the meal as well as the 3 main courses.

Sharon

[Rob_Fenn]

Also could probably do the afternoon but not the dinner. Is there another thread on what the factory tour consists of?

[NSX 2000]

Also could probably do the afternoon but not the dinner. Is there another thread on what the factory tour consists of?

Hi Rob,

I've done the tour 3 times now and I'm still really looking forward to this trip :thumbsup:

The first part is an introduction to MUGEN, history, now and future. 2nd part is a tour of their facilities including their "garage" more like a operating theartre, spotless, here you will meet Ben, the main mechanic. 3rd part is seeing their Dyno room (cell) this is imo very impressive.

HTH

Paul

[Dragonlady]

Is there any plans for a drive after breakfast on Saturday?

Thanks Ian

[Senninha]

Only if you think you can keep up with me in our CRV ;):laugh:

[ollie]

hi Ian ,

yes ,
my plan is to drive to Scotland for 4 days touring , downside being i have to be in Statford upon Avon @ 8.30 am on Sat
morning to meet the rest of my party , so easy on the beer Friday night

steve

[Chris B N]

If we are going for a drive after I will come in the Civic
You never know I might be able to swap my metalic blue for one of those rather nice white Mugen cars without anyone noticing !!!!!!!

Chris

[Hagasan]

I won't be able to make the Mugen visit due to work commitments.....What time is the meal roughly as I need to work out whether I can get there or not in time....

Sorry.

Gary :-/

[NSX 2000]

I won't be able to make the Mugen visit due to work commitments.....What time is the meal roughly as I need to work out whether I can get there or not in time....

Sorry.

Gary :-/

Hi Gary

As I'm sure you'll remember we didn't leave MUGEN when we visited in October untill after 7pm so I thought 8pm to meet for 8:30 sit down

Paul

[TheSebringOne]

Sorry Paul, but I regret that I am unable to attend as it on one of my best friend's
stag do and its an all day affair with quad biking, meal, comedy club & so on!

I was looking forward to this and catching up with you guys.

Have a great time.

PS. Your private email box is full I think.

[NSX 2000]

Only 4 weeks to go before the best ever NSCXB dinner you have ever been to!

Please add your name to the list if your coming.

Any questions just ask.

1) NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie
3) Dragonlady +1 (hotel booked)
4) Chris BN
5) Senninha 1 x visit 2 x meal (plus 2 little ones :))
6) Hagasan meal only
7) Nytram +1 visit & meal Hotel booked
8) howellr (visit only as I can't commit to the dinner but would like a visit to the 'factory')

[Ewan]

Only 4 weeks to go before the best ever NSCXB dinner you have ever been to!

Please add your name to the list if your coming.

Any questions just ask.


1) NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie
3) Dragonlady +1 (hotel booked)
4) Chris BN
5) Senninha 1 x visit 2 x meal (plus 2 little ones :))
6) Hagasan meal only
7) Nytram +1 visit & meal Hotel booked
8) howellr (visit only as I can't commit to the dinner but would like a visit to the 'factory')
9) Ewan + 1 (dinner B&B only, no factory visit I'm afraid)

Paul: any idea what time we need to be there for dinner? I'd assume 7/7:30 but if any different maybe you could let us know?
thanks, Ewan

[NSX 2000]

Hi Ewan

If you look at post 21 you will see the answer I gave Gary.

Paul

[Hagasan]

Paul you could have saved yourself some typing if you had just said the time....what time was it again?!?
Hi Ewan

If you look at post 21 you will see the answer I gave Gary.

Paul

[howellr]

Maybe I'm going daft (gone ?) but what time do we meet for the tour ?

[NSX 2000]

Maybe I'm going daft (gone ?) but what time do we meet for the tour ?

No you are not going daft, IIRC I've just said approx times, but I guess I should start to put firm times down.

We need to be at MUGEN for 3:30 so I was going to suggest we all meet at the Northampton Services on the M1 at 15a for 3pm, then a small convoy to the Factory.

[markc]

Sorry chaps I can't make it, gutted :( Gotta work AND they're keeping us over the weekend! The only upside is that the event is in Orlando so I might be able get me some roller coaster action :cool:

Have fun in my absence :)

Cheers

Mark

[Papalazarou]

1) NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie
3) Dragonlady +1 (hotel booked)
4) Chris BN
5) Senninha 1 x visit 2 x meal (plus 2 little ones )
6) Hagasan meal only
7) Nytram +1 visit & meal Hotel booked
8) howellr (visit only as I can't commit to the dinner but would like a visit to the 'factory')
9) Ewan + 1 (dinner B&B only, no factory visit I'm afraid)
10) Papalazarou
11) PeteM

[Paul G]

Hi,

Visit only I'm affriad.

1) NSX 2000 +1
2) ollie
3) Dragonlady +1 (hotel booked)
4) Chris BN
5) Senninha 1 x visit 2 x meal (plus 2 little ones )
6) Hagasan meal only
7) Nytram +1 visit & meal Hotel booked
8) howellr (visit only as I can't commit to the dinner but would like a visit to the 'factory')
9) Ewan + 1 (dinner B&B only, no factory visit I'm afraid)
10) Papalazarou
11) PeteM
12) Paul G

[howellr]

To save me driving round the two service areas looking for some old honda's, can I assume we are meeting on the Northbound side of the services ? (According to the website for the services, there are services on both sides).
KR,
Rod

[NSX 2000]

To save me driving round the two service areas looking for some old honda's, can I assume we are meeting on the Northbound side of the services ? (According to the website for the services, there are services on both sides).
KR,
Rod

Hi Rod

That's right there are services on both sides and you can get to both sides no matter what direction you approach (North / South on M1 or East / West on A43).

As you have picked the Northbound side then that's where we will meet. 3:30pm this Friday!

If we really twist MUGEN's arm they give us a sneak preview of something they are working on :D

Paul

[Dragonlady]

Big thankyou to Paul for organising a great day. Good to see some old and new faces, see you at Japfest.
Sorry we couldn't make it for the twenty questions, it sounded fun, but somebody had to make the first move for bed.

All the best Ian and Sharon

[NSX 2000]

Ian & Sharon, no thank you for coming and of course evrey one else who made it. I hope you all had a good time and all got home safely.

I would like to say thankyou to the Roadehouse hotel for looking after us, this is a small hotel which I would recommend to any body and 2 of us tried to book for the Silverstone classic weekend, but they are already full :(

A very big thank you to all at MUGEN for having us and a special thanks to Colin who showed us around and answered all our questions and Gareth who came from Honda head office to also answer questions about Honda's future plans.

If you can let me know if you had a good time then maybe we could make this an annual event?

Regards

Paul

[Chris B N]

Paul,
it was excellent ~well done.
You can count me in if we make this a annual event
Chris

[howellr]

Firstly, thx for organising.
Second, Mugen were very welcoming. Good of Gareth (Honda) to turn up and give an insight into the future.
Motor racing isn't much of my thing but it's good to see that Honda make engines that can be used in extreme environments (like my wife driving to the supermarket !)
Although I suspect armoured body work would be more appropriate for those locations where people can't get out of their cars without bashing the car next to them.
Perhpas a special addition CR-Z could be made called "supermarket ready" !
Regards to all,
Rod

[Nytram]

Making this an annual event would be an excellent idea, We both enjoyed the visit and meal, with interesting and entertaining company, looking forward to next time.

Shame about the hotel being fully booked for SC, I guess it would be a good idea to try to get somewhere else booked real soon, did Paul mention a Hilton?

Regards Martyn

[sorepaws]

B&B Room for 2 available in Milton Keynes for the SSC - what am I offered ? :-D

[Nytram]

[QUOTE=sorepaws;83474]B&B Room for 2 available in Milton Keynes for the SSC - what am I offered ? :-D

Thanks for your kind offer but i think it's best if we don't invade your personal space too much, thanks again, see you there.