[s-cars] LAF Weekend JNR report - E60 ///M5

[Postupack, Jeff]

Mike, Scott, PK, and Tha' List..

I survived the Paul-land GOF last night ( That''s a new annexed town in
CT catering to MotorHeads)  which meant staying awake WAY past my
natural subconscious cycle. Like 2:38 AM.. BUT why not? 

It was entirely worth even moment, seeing SR Young, Mark Besso, Bob
D'Mato, Domo-Aregato-Rossato, Paul and the 3 kids. (well YEAH they live
at the place) , Jim Pasqualoni , Serge, Brian (new guy with a CTS-V) ,
Tom Mullane,  Don Warren, Rich A, Ron ITSAV8, (looking damn good with
those rims.) many others.. 
I enjoyed the ride in (new guy) Brian;s CTS-V with Serge and Andrew..
Had to cool Serge, when hs said.. So ya think you can get this think
sideways Ah Bit! 
This guys had the car 11 days ,man.  JNR for sure. 

We're having a great time drinking cool aid and freezin' our butts off,
eatin' pizza , talkin', and tradin' all types of car stories.. And
briefly talked about S Fest 2007 as if that's something that naturally
happens because we thought so..  .. But no details, we're busy  ya'
know? 

 and people eventually peel off cause it's a SCHOOL night or something..
when "I" think it's gonna be early night, when Brian Werstak arrives mit
M5 round 11:30 PM ..  whereupon we ALL decide to burn April Fool's day
oil, and learn  the new meaning to WTF? 

Midnight strikes and this Ain't no April Fools joke, that IS a 2006 BMW
M5 sittin' out there. In it's Silver or Titanium or WTF paint glory.

Jim P is swearing to Lord Almighty he can see Blue and Pink in the
paint.. Several of us look closely, and .. Yeah Yeah I can see it too!
hoping to see what Jim's seeing.

Even if I melted all the iron I own and reformulated some Frankenstien
Uber sled, adding cylinders in a false accumulation  of all the BHP and
best intent..  (4 Audi's , lots if imagination  plus a  Kubota and a
coupla of Husky chainsaws.. ) , would not even produce enough ANYTHING
To contest that M5. 

My one word line  is  " Furious",     adding "Glorious" and other such
descriptors to what Paul , Scot and MikeP mentioned earlier.

We talked good and long into the night and gauked all over the M5, from
key fob to the rear tail pipe tip, .. Freakin' A, the REAR brakes are
bigger than RS2SPEC's FRONT brakes. (No offense SRY you gotta fine car)
Heads up telematics,  NAV, SMG, V -freakin'- 10 , WHY?  well drive it!
and it'll change yer staunch opinion about rowing gears and clutches.
That's old technology fella's.  The only bad thing I can say about
today's BMW M5 is.... "I don't own one".. 

Think about it.

Serge got hungry at midnight and conned Jim P to find SOME kinda Greek
diner  or somethin'  off they go in the 1991 20V Avant.,.... Brian says
casually 'Wanna come over for a beer and check out the Cars.. " To which
my son BOLTED for the right side seat , in such a manner that I KNEW he
would WALK back to Hanover NH if that's the price of an M5 ride. He has
found Jesus! in the form of this guy driving an M5.  Gotta go Dad!

" Why Not!  " and I follow, asked Brian for his address to plug the nav,
he say's  "I'm not gonna lose you"   
Hah HA HA Ahh HAAA  What ? This is gonna be a lesson in humility.

We flash by 3 CT State Cops in due procees of Cuffing and Stuffing some
unlucky CT talent.. And well, sprint for Brian's house.
He's driving confidently on the line of oblivion with the shrill of a
V10 at appropriate moments. He polietley waits for me , my IA #3 S4
heaving at the effort just at being , 
Well in the same state! The M5 operates on some other parallel universe
or sumthin.. 

I'm rowing gears real hard and realize time is standing still, for
me.(Red shift) . And it's that Star Trek show where everybody is
mov-ing- really - slow -except-  for (Blue Shift) Andrew- and Brian.. 

Get to Brian's house at 1AM he say's  "Wanna take a drive"??   There's
that term.. WTF?  I grab the keys as diplomatically as I could
considering I was a tremblin' and looking at the ( Taka's term!)  Road
Rocket of my dreams & all 3 pile in.  Back to slo mo.. I'm just getting
my brain wrapped around the cockpit, what's all the flashing lights,
stubby stick, 2 pedals down there..Intimidating Go Fast pedal on the
right.,.  and shit I'm driving this $90K car wandering around a
subburban neighborhood.. OK I think I might begin to ..
" Nail it Posto"  saz Brian.. Which I do and BAMM. WTF?   We're launched
forward crisp, sudden, when I suddenly notice the dynamic seat Bolsters
snugging my thighs and kidney's in an Oh so Erotic Do that One more Time
kinda way.. Brian's snickering on my right.. He's the Devil ya hear? 
Yep, you launch over some threshold and the car hugs your loins.. That's
ldesign to the highest degree. 

We're back in Brian's garage 2AM.. paying homage to the Porsche GT-2,
the Landrover, the Merc E500, the 1995.5 S6! 
And of course the E60 // M5.. Looking menacing.. 

Crisp, quick, confident, stable, Furious, $75K eh?? Thinking whatta I
gotta due to scratch together enuf to buy such a fine example. 
Wander back to Paul's house in my VW bug, (oops) and can only say if you
don't understand Paul's original article, well, kepp on reading..
You'll catch on soon enough.

My sincere thanks to Brian W for the opportunity..  
Think Coventry round about August.. 

Dreamin' I am .. Posto 







 

























Having spent the last weekend at Heartland Park in Topeka chasing, being
chased by a St. Louis gentleman in a (? color) is it the Titanium or
meteor
gray RS6, I heartily second Scott's observation, "No Virginia, you can
still
be fat as Santa Clause AND considered a fast girl."  Individual lap for
lap,
that thing was moving.  I think the remaining Achilles' heel is in
sustainability.  I suspect that after 3 or 4 consecutive really hard
laps
the larger cars tires, and depending on setups etc. brakes may start to
go
away a bit faster.  I suspect a good portion of the experience must have
been the driver of the RS6.  Seems to me that last time I ran with one
on a
track outside of Las Vegas, the Rx8 didn't have that much of a problem
in
catching the California RS6 .... or maybe I'm just not as quick in the
damn
Cayman as I could be in the Rx8.  

Nice write up Paul.  Now, all this uber speed testing took place on just
exactly what :-), high speed track facilities?   Oh, I know, the JNR
place
just down the road, ..... right next to the county lock up.

Cheers  


>-----Original Message-----
>From: s-car-list On Behalf Of QSHIPQ at aol.com
<http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/s-car-list> 

>Paul
>great read...  Highly suggest the S600 as a comparo per
>Teddy's  suggestion.  
>The world of ground based gulfstream private jets is way  
>beyond the RS6 we 
>have to date.  That M5 is chasing the S600, way beyond  what 
>we audifiles are 
>used to...
> 
>Or, put simply from one of my long ago posts, finding fun in
>dancing with a  
>Miss Piggy, doesn't require you put a bag over her head anymore.
> 
>Again, nice report.
> 
>Scott J
>In a message dated 3/30/2007 8:57:00 A.M. Central Standard Time,
>pkrasusky at ups.com
<http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/s-car-list>  writes:
>...
>JNR, as usual.  I highly recommend trying this at home  kids.
>
>-Paul
>