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someone thinks the 1 series m coupe is the best BMW ever

Yeah that's a common feeling apparently 😛

Either that or the e36 m3 csl from europe..

But the 1M is more livable with AC and all that
 
The car has so much power that even with the full-size tires, it needs traction control to keep it civilized.

Hmmm. Maybe I should turn that off. The first press of the button engages “MDM.” I never looked up what it stands for, but I decided it means “Mediocre Driver Management.” It allows you to rip and chirp the tires between upshifts and whistle the tires while accelerating, but it keeps you in check, preventing you from doing very stupid things. But I really wanted to know what stupid feels like. So I held the button down for a few seconds, causing all the nannyware to turn completely off.


At this point, “Beware of Massive Tire Burnouts” should be displayed on the dash. The car became raw, almost angry. Dr. Jekyll was long gone, replaced by this angry beast.
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Coming soon to a telephone pole near you... and hopefully a youtube video. 😛
 
HAL9000 said:
I don't get it?
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Someone who is stoked enough to think 300 HP is "angry beast" has no experience with high performance cars and shouldn't be turning off traction control. Sounds like a kid with his first V8 300 HP Mustang that won't last a week.
 
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exdeath said:
Someone who is stoked enough to think 300 HP is "angry beast" has no experience with high performance cars and shouldn't be turning off traction control. Sounds like a kid with his first V8 300 HP Mustang that won't last a week.
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This can go round corners though. My car has 112hp. 300 is a lot. This car can do 0-60 in 4.9seconds. It's a beast.

It went round the Top Gear test track in 1.25.1! That's .2 seconds slower than a Bentley Continental GT SS
 
The V6 Camry is a beast too then, and it also has a steering wheel with pivoting front wheels.

"I have a BMW I can go around corners" is the mindset that is going to get this 300 HP beast wrapped around a tree trying to do at rolling burnout :awe:

Physics and ditches aren't badge whores, they will happily give lessons to anyone 😉
 
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The 1M is a neat car, given its MSRP, but since they cannot be purchased for MSRP, it's kind of pointless.

300hp being a beast made me chuckle as well.
 
HAL9000 said:
This can go round corners though. My car has 112hp. 300 is a lot. This car can do 0-60 in 4.9seconds. It's a beast.

It went round the Top Gear test track in 1.25.1! That's .2 seconds slower than a Bentley Continental GT SS
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Not exactly a svelte corner carver...
 
300 @ crank even. I'm sure its a blast and all, I'm just pointing out the humor of someone being flabbergasted by what is obviously their first 300 flywheel horsepower RWD experience. Many of us have been there, that's why its funny.
 
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exdeath said:
The V6 Camry is a beast too then, and it also has a steering wheel with pivoting front wheels.

"I have a BMW I can go around corners" is the mindset that is going to get this 300 HP beast wrapped around a tree trying to do at rolling burnout :awe:

Physics and ditches aren't badge whores, they will happily give lessons to anyone 😉
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When a "V6 Camry" can pop to the Top Gear test track faster than an M3 or a Lotus Exige S, then I'll agree with you.
 
exdeath said:
Someone who is stoked enough to think 300 HP is "angry beast" has no experience with high performance cars and shouldn't be turning off traction control. Sounds like a kid with his first V8 300 HP Mustang that won't last a week.
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I was in a 300HP car once that was indeed an angry beast. It weighed about 1200-1500 lbs though

The 1 M is a great sportscar if you are looking for an ultra-compact...IMHO I don't like it's proportions, and of course they are nearly unobtainable.
 
A car built towards specific thing is better at that thing than a car not built for that thing? Careful, we got some massive insight in here!
 
exdeath said:
300 @ crank even. I'm sure its a blast and all, I'm just pointing out the humor of someone being flabbergasted by what is obviously their first 300 flywheel horsepower RWD experience. Many of us have been there, that's why its funny.
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uh, it's commonly known that the turbo 3 is severely underrated and makes its crank rating at the wheels.

click me!

that's nearly as much torque as an 03 cobra. way more than a camry.
 
ElFenix said:
uh, it's commonly known that the turbo 3 is severely underrated and makes its crank rating at the wheels.

click me!

that's nearly as much torque as an 03 cobra. way more than a camry.
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You can't really trust anectdotal dyno ratings. *Especially* (and I can't stress this enough), insideline.com dyno tests.

http://blogs.insideline.com/straightline/2010/12/dyno-tested-2011-dodge-challenger-srt8.html

Here is my car making 452 whp according to them. That's about 30 hp more than anyone else seems to get. (and with a 15% drivetrain loss would suggest around 530 bhp as opposed to the ~500ish most tests suggest for the 470 hp rated engine).
 
I gotta agree with exdeath, that article reads pretty silly. The intro is stupid (clear pandering to the pervasive ignorance about modern turbos). His paragraph about why he's qualified seems just f'ed up in light of the rest of the article. Its written like lowest common denominator fluff, like a less entertaining version of Top Gear. For his experience, he sure comes off as some 20-something journalism student who got to borrow his dad's car and write an article about it.

Granted, I wasn't expecting much given its Wired, but still pretty wonky.

HAL9000 said:
No of course it's not but if were talking extreme power... a "beast"...
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No. Its nice how you try to claim that's a extreme beast but shrugged off cars that make 3 times that power in that other thread.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
I gotta agree with exdeath, that article reads pretty silly. The intro is stupid (clear pandering to the pervasive ignorance about modern turbos). His paragraph about why he's qualified seems just f'ed up in light of the rest of the article. Its written like lowest common denominator fluff, like a less entertaining version of Top Gear. For his experience, he sure comes off as some 20-something journalism student who got to borrow his dad's car and write an article about it.

Granted, I wasn't expecting much given its Wired, but still pretty wonky.



No. Its nice how you try to claim that's a extreme beast but shrugged off cars that make 3 times that power in that other thread.
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..? Link?
 
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