Re: E30 BMW M3 v. URQ

[Kwattro@aol.com]

In a message dated 99-03-09 23:59:58 EST, you write:

<< Funny, the S2 is just the performance model (like stage 1) while the other
 two were 'higher' performance versions of their 'high' performance models.
 
 Scott Wood
 1990 CQ
 Charlotte, NC
  >>


Funny, how many Coupe Quattro S2's won touring car championships?  Seriously,
get an M3 and a TQC out on a track and we'll see who wins.  Straight line
speed is not everything, judging from my stock engined 4000Q being able to lap
serveral seconds faster than A4's at Limerock.  If they do 0-60 in 10 seconds,
I'd be surprised.  I think it was more like 7.2 or so.  See what I'm getting
at?  It is very humbling to be in a 300+ hp M5 and get passed by *several* E30
M3's at the track.  And none of them were evolution M3's, which had in the
upper 200 hp range (instead of 190).  No way a stock S2 could keep up with a
stock E30 M3 around a track all day. - they're just set up to do different
things (no way a stock E30 could keep up with a stock S2 in the snow.)

Later
Carter J
Kwattro@aol.com