RE: BEST 1M Coupe

[rtz62]

I think it's ste.
Why ruin an almost perfect looking car?
Too many wet-dreams over the Halfords / Ripspeed catalogues if you ask me.....

[Marf]

rtz62 said:

I think it's ste.
Why ruin an almost perfect looking car?
Too many wet-dreams over the Halfords / Ripspeed catalogues if you ask me.....

Ruined is a bit fierce, it's barely any different aside from the wheels

Can you show me where in the ripspeed catalogue these items for the 1M Coupé are located?

[dandarez]

yonex said:

sagarich said:

Like the colour, hate the wheels!

+1

+1

Wheels can maketh or breaketh a car. The original wide Y-spokes look the part, are the part, on the M1.

Did they get the idea from the best alloys on the MINI, the Challenge Y spokes on the John Cooper Works ?

Edited by dandarez on Monday 17th September 15:59

[kayzee]

It's not the BEST, this is!

http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67...

[sagarich]

PhilLL said:

mat205125 said:

Yes to the colour, however I'd love to see it on the standard CSL style rims.

Now that is cracking!

[Cheib]

There was a stage when BMW couldn't make Estoril cars when they changed the paint process to the current more enviromentally friendly one....has that now changed?

[chrisironside]

tommy vercetti said:

Arun_D said:

Throwing a couple of other colours into the mix..

Dakar Yellow


Fire Orange (a la M3 GTS)

Love the dakar yellow ones

Yella gets my vote too!

[underphil]

MarJay said:

85bhp from a remap and exhaust!?!

Jeez.

+85 over the official figures - I'm sure in reality they all left the factory with at least 20 more than that.

So say +65bhp, which is <20% gain

[edo]

yonex said:

sagarich said:

Like the colour, hate the wheels!

+1

+1

[GarryA]

[aelord]

Why do aftermarket tuners always ruin stuff with chavvy wheels?

[Marf]

aelord said:

Why do aftermarket tuners always ruin stuff with chavvy wheels?

why do people keep using the word ruin?

ru·in/ˈro͞oin/
Noun:
The physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed.
Verb:
Reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration: "a ruined castle".

The car clearly is not ruined.

[aelord]

Marf said:

why do people keep using the word ruin?

ru·in/ˈro͞oin/
Noun:
The physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed.
Verb:
Reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration: "a ruined castle".

The car clearly is not ruined.

Any vestige of aesthetic merit the vehicle once had (precious little, being a 1 series) is, indeed ruined: destroyed by those wheels.

[Colt91]

GarryA said:

Absolutely stunning!

[waxaholic]

Nice colour but the 20 inch wheels are a bad choice, they look sh#te

[Marf]

aelord said:

Marf said:

why do people keep using the word ruin?

ru·in/ˈro͞oin/
Noun:
The physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed.
Verb:
Reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration: "a ruined castle".

The car clearly is not ruined.

Any vestige of aesthetic merit the vehicle once had (precious little, being a 1 series) is, indeed ruined: destroyed by those wheels.

OK precious whatever you say.

[handbraketurn]

underphil said:

MarJay said:

85bhp from a remap and exhaust!?!

Jeez.

+85 over the official figures - I'm sure in reality they all left the factory with at least 20 more than that.

So say +65bhp, which is <20% gain

Its not a huge gain when you put it in the context of what people have done with Scoobies and Evo's over the years with remaps and exhaust / intake combinations.

Ive always said, the upside of manufacturers opting for turbo charging smaller engines is they are easier to tune.

With a V8, short of spending a small fortune on super/turbo charging, which barely seems worth it, after adding a highflow exhaust/intake, and remap, which has mininal gains, you have to start changing cams and all sorts. Very expensive and doesn't help when you come to sell it.

Quick remap and exhaust can be reversed pretty easily.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr7K8aAellM&fea...

http://www.evolveautomotive.com/tuning-packages_11...

[s m]

handbraketurn said:

underphil said:

MarJay said:

85bhp from a remap and exhaust!?!

Jeez.

+85 over the official figures - I'm sure in reality they all left the factory with at least 20 more than that.

So say +65bhp, which is <20% gain

Its not a huge gain when you put it in the context of what people have done with Scoobies and Evo's over the years with remaps and exhaust / intake combinations.

Ive always said, the upside of manufacturers opting for turbo charging smaller engines is they are easier to tune.

So it's a 3 litre turbo putting out about 420-450bhp depending on the figures??? That equates to about 280-300bhp from a 2 litre. As said, it's not a massive amount when you look at turbo cars from the 90s

[TaylotS2K]

That looks dreadful.

[toon10]

Its been said already but those wheels are awful. The choice of a teenager. The originals are amongst the best looking around so why not mimic them at least?