Gatebil’s four yellow BMW M5 taxis have transported thousands of visitors at the Gatebil festival around Vålerbanen, Mantorp Park and Rudskogen sideways since 2005. From 2025 it will also go at least 3 Gatebil Taxi sidways at Circuit Meppen in Germany.
HISTORY
The first taxi was a BMW 3 series with M3 six and turbo. The following year we built a Volvo XC90 with tube frame and big-block V8. Both of these have now got new owners, and in the Taxi garage there are now 3 BMW M5 (E60)
The M5 V10 engine, which originally produces 507 horses, has been slightly up-tuned, and all cars are lighter by almost 300 kg. Otherwise, all taxis are specially rigged as racing cars, with a solid roll cage, 4 deep Sparco racing seats, fire extinguisher system and 4-point harness. Each car can carry 3 passengers.
ATTENTION! There is no age limit in Norway, in Sweden you have to be 16 years of age to sit on. You must be at least 150 cm tall to fit the seats and harnesses.
TEAM GATEBIL TAXI
Gatebil Taxis have their own garage / workshop in Horten, and a team that operates the cars are:
Bjørnar Iversen (team boss),
Hans R. Iversen,
Morten Haugen,
Morten Saglien,
Åge Flugre,
Lasse Tonby,
Sara Haro,
Tommy Brun,
Agnar B Andreassen,
Alexander Røed Haugen,
Aksel Hagen,
Tore Siren,
Line Backe,
Therese Ytre-Eide
Stine B Jørgensen,
Stine Karlsen,
og
Tim Saglien
TAXI drivers are:
Bjørnar Iversen,
Hans R. Iversen,
Åge Flugre,
Sara Haro,
Morten Saglien,
Morten Haugen,
Lasse Tonby og
Tommy Brun.
In addition, we have had many guest drivers such as Henning Solberg, Andreas Mikkelsen and Stian Hafsengen.
