Taylor Made Cars: The Story of BMW 6X

Taylor Made Cars: The Plates, The Projects, and the BMW That Started It All Taylor Hetherington is not your typical automotive YouTuber. He did not grow up with a camera in his hand or a media career in mind. He was a mechanic, a proper hands-on one, the kind of person who understands cars from the inside out rather than from in front of a lens. That changed when he crossed paths with Alex Kersten of AutoAlex, who recognised something in Taylor that most people with a spanner in their hand never get the opportunity to show on screen. Since then, Taylor has built his own channel, Taylor Made Cars, into a genuinely compelling corner of UK automotive YouTube, driven by honest content and an infectious obsession with BMWs. The Car That Defined Him: BMW 6X The story of Taylor's BMW 635 CSi is one of those tales that sounds too good to be true, but is absolutely not. As a teenager in Hertfordshire, Taylor rented a council garage to store his first car, a Mk2 Fiat Punto. One day, he noticed the garage opposite his was left half open. He peered inside and found the rear end of a BMW 635 CSi. Mattress on the roof. Three windows smashed. Anything of value long since stripped. He pulled the door shut and screwed it closed to stop further damage, then left it. A year later, letters arrived from the council. The garages were to be demolished. The 635's fate, if left to the system, would have been the scrapyard. Taylor ran the history, discovered it had been sitting there untouched for thirteen years, and contacted the council. They had not been able to trace the owner. Under the relevant legislation, they could not sell it for profit. Taylor applied for a logbook. The DVLA tried and failed to find the original owner, and three weeks later, a V5C arrived in Taylor's name. The total cost of acquiring a 1985 BMW 635 CSi with an Alpina front spoiler, BBS split wheels, and a manual gearbox was £25. The plate BMW 6X sits on that car, and it could hardly be more fitting. The BMW 6 Series is the car that changed the course of Taylor's story, and this single plate ties together the man, the marque, and the moment. T4Y HP Straightforward in the best possible way. T4Y reads as Tay, short for Taylor, and HP carries his initials. It is a personal plate in the truest sense, uncomplicated and direct. No hidden meaning needed when the combination works as well as this one does.