[s-cars] My butt momentarily in a BMW

[LL - NY]

Damn Scott, you hit that one right on the head!

On 12/4/07, QSHIPQ at aol.com <QSHIPQ at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> I don't know much boys about any BMW specifications, but I did swing by my
> old ProRally navigator's house over Thanksgiving.  In his garage sits 3
> concours winning BMW's, a 2001 M5 coach edition (how did they get
> leather  to stick
> there?!), a 4 month old 335i coupe and a 20k mile pristine E30M3  track
> car.
> His challenge was for me to Paulie-JNR-test the 335 back to  back with his
> M5.
> This was just a drive, flog, and compare 2 chassis of  the marque.  No
> Idrive, weights, specs, tire comparos, nuttin.
>
> I'll only say this, that 335 coupe is not only a fine looking machine
> (better than the latest M5 chopped taurus look) but it hands down
> handled  better
> than his '01 M5.  After serious redline flogging of both, I  just wanted
> so hard
> to give the nod to the M, but couldn't.  Not  close.  And my comment was
> that
> the xi versions of this driveline and  chassis will give audi a reason to
> sweat.  As a turbo guy for over  20years, to *not know* I was driving one,
> like
> at all, I give all the kudos to  BMW for upsetting the apple cart once
> again,
> and for now clearly infringing on  Audis turf.
>
> And, to add insult to injury, left foot brake, heel toe, no BMW engineer
> decided the nut was too loose behind the wheel and cut the drive by  wire
> on your
> behalf, ala audi.
>
> I wasn't that impressed with a machine since I was at his place a couple
> years ago driving his X5 sport...
>
> Scott JNR since J
>
>
> In a message dated 12/4/2007 12:58:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> tedebearp at yahoo.com writes:
>
> The 135i  weighs 3440 lbs., nearly as much as a Mustang GT with its V8 and
> a
> solid rear  axle, or a Honda Accord.  It's maybe 150 lbs less than a 335i,
> which has  a much more useful passenger cabin.  I would have been
> interested at
> $35k  and 3000-3100 lbs, but it's too heavy and expensive.
>
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