e90 m3 on fifth gear tonight
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my e90 m3 has a cameo role on fifth gear tonight - up against R8 V10 spyder/SL63 AMG and Grancabrio Spyder in straightline duel with Tiff at the wheel - you can guess the results...funnily enough responded to a request on here about 6 months ago to bring car along - shame i had not had OEM exhaust mod done then - as it sounds much crisper now
I think it was along the lines that if you spend £100k+ on exotic dropheads - how much quicker are they than the mundane M3 type of thing - but I am not entirely sure and cannot truthfully remember - their twitter feed here has a link to a very short trailer - it's on at 8pm discovery channel tonight
rossb said:
my e90 m3 has a cameo role on fifth gear tonight - up against R8 V10 spyder/SL63 AMG and Grancabrio Spyder in straightline duel with Tiff at the wheel - you can guess the results...funnily enough responded to a request on here about 6 months ago to bring car along - shame i had not had OEM exhaust mod done then - as it sounds much crisper now
Didn't think the M3 was shown up; quicker than one of the three £100k machines and losing in a drag run to an R8 V10 and an SL63 is no disgrace! I'm sure it would have fared better still had there been some sort of handling comparison (although I can see you may not have been too keen on Tiff lighting-up your tyres!) and as an everyday performance car the M3 still takes a lot of beating IMHO.yeah - i didn't think it came across too badly - it is not really a straightline machine but i have had an indicated 165 in 5th with a gear to go and don't doubt it would do a real 182 with limiter removed. Anyway in a drag race it had it's arse kicked by a V10 Lambo engined Audi and an SL63 with 663 ib/ft of torque(!) so no big surprise there then!
The R8 would have killed it on the circuit - but i am not so sure about the SL63 and the Maser would not have seen it.
i only spent the morning at Rockingham and was offered for the car to be taken round the track in the afternoon - but i knew the tyres would be f
ked at the end of it - so i passed - anyway they were quite considerate as i pointed out that i did not want the car to be launched from a standing start and they did the runs from a rolling start - about 12 in all.
I have done 20k in mine now and I cannot think of anything I would really want to replace it with as a work hack - it's quite discreet and as such a good Q car.
The R8 would have killed it on the circuit - but i am not so sure about the SL63 and the Maser would not have seen it.
i only spent the morning at Rockingham and was offered for the car to be taken round the track in the afternoon - but i knew the tyres would be f
ked at the end of it - so i passed - anyway they were quite considerate as i pointed out that i did not want the car to be launched from a standing start and they did the runs from a rolling start - about 12 in all.I have done 20k in mine now and I cannot think of anything I would really want to replace it with as a work hack - it's quite discreet and as such a good Q car.
Given there was barely half a second between them on a track how do you think the M3 would have beaten the Merc but not the Audi? That's a pretty accurate time.
It is also surprising the difference between a fast car 9second to 100mph M3 vs super cars and a short sprint the M3 didn't know which way they went.
Did you get new tyres and a full service plus valet?
It is also surprising the difference between a fast car 9second to 100mph M3 vs super cars and a short sprint the M3 didn't know which way they went.
Did you get new tyres and a full service plus valet?
It was an interesting episode. Nice to see some BMWs on the show.
A DCT would have faired a bot better with the quicker shifts and shorter ratios, probably would have been convincingly ahead of the Maser and still a fair way behind the other 2.
Did they pay for fuel and tyres? Was it a fun day?
A DCT would have faired a bot better with the quicker shifts and shorter ratios, probably would have been convincingly ahead of the Maser and still a fair way behind the other 2.
Did they pay for fuel and tyres? Was it a fun day?
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