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Nice work on trying to change your tune.
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Good point, internet watch dog.
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Just trying to keep everything straight.
Don't want people ing all over the place.
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When watching the video they commented on the squeaking brakes... Do you think that is due to the fact that they were man handling the car for days and days before? Just curious
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Race pads. All cars had them.
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"....we blasted to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds
The surface wasn’t ideal, however, and we expect even better numbers once we get one to our usual test track. " So we can expect 4.2 and possibly a 4.1 0-60 then. That's on stock tires. Maybe a solid 4.1 or 4.0 on sticky's? ".94g on the skidpad" Sorry, even with 19's on the 335i and a Proceed, the 335i gets smoked and that's BEFORE an M3 gets modded.... I am thoroughly enjoying eating my own excrement on all of my past M3 bashings. I was WRONG! Hooray!! Last edited by NewhouseEnt; 07-13-2007 at 08:34 PM.. Reason: Add info |
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it looks like the bigger and more reputable publications are giving the M3 strong reviews.... all with the exception of steering, of course.
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Also Car and Driver run their instrumented tests such that the 0 to 60 time doesn't start until after the front tires have moved 12 inches!! You may say, 12 inches is nothing, but I can tell you that the first 12 inches in my G35 is definitely the slowest when pulling from a dead stop with the traction control off for a maximum accel hole run.
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Now, once the good performance reviews are coming in, members of this board resort to attacking other members. Well played. Go back to your Audi/Infiniti boards, no need for you being here with that kind of attitude.
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well said mate
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First of all, the 0 to 60 numbers we read in the reviews are the absolute BEST times accomplished after multiple runs by professional or realtively professional car drivers/auto magazine testers who drive for a living. And these times are being accomplished on a closed-course track. So when C/D says 0 to 60 of 4.4 seconds, that is THE BEST this car is capable of. Am I excited about 4.4, absolutely. Do I think I could get 4.4 out of the M3, probably not. Also, I think most owners of the new M3 will also not be able to get 4.4 out of this car and would be LUCKY to get 5 flat out of it, which is what I was agreeing with. 0.6 seconds is esentially the differance between the perfect launch and a good launch. Because I doubt you know, when you launch one of these cars, its not just revving to redline and dumping/popping the clutch. You need to find the best rev range for the engine at launch and modulate the clutch and throttle while initially accelerating to put maximum power to the rear wheels without excessive wheel spin, on one end of the spectrum, or power lull on the other end of the spectrum from having everything hooked up below your maximum power band. Going 0 to 60 in one of these cars is NOTHING like stomping on the gas in your Maxima.
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And, easy on the personal insults. How do you know Epacy so well? I hope you approach your patients with more of an open-mind. "Dropping the hammer from a standstill, we blasted to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds, 0.4 second quicker than the previous car, with the quarter-mile dispatched in 12.9 seconds at 111 mph, an even larger, 0.7-second gain. The surface wasn’t ideal, however, and we expect even better numbers once we get one to our usual test track." -C&D M3 First Drive, C&D website. |
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