R32
Registered User
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,479
Likes: 0
From: Edinburgh
where I too could liberate another 40bhp or so
Have you compared with an e46 M3 gad. Is there any difference at all?
Registered User
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 280
Likes: 0
From: aberdeen , Scotland, uk
Originally Posted by Saxo Boy,Feb 17 2006, 04:29 AM
I personally think the other driver will be over the moon rather than stoney-faced. He just held of a 400bhp V8 super-saloon until 1XX mph! That's a big achievement in even a VXT.
I've just remembered I raced an R32 at Crail last time I was there. I had a good chat with the driver before hand and as expected he pulled a car length or so coming off the line. I pulled him back in pretty quickly and breezed past putting on a good 4-8 car lengths on the otherside before the quartermile mark. In truth it was a fairly easy kill - about as easy as a standard subaru wrx.
I've just remembered I raced an R32 at Crail last time I was there. I had a good chat with the driver before hand and as expected he pulled a car length or so coming off the line. I pulled him back in pretty quickly and breezed past putting on a good 4-8 car lengths on the otherside before the quartermile mark. In truth it was a fairly easy kill - about as easy as a standard subaru wrx.
Was it a silver one with private plate??
He is 6ft, blonde guy called andrew??
Registered User
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,479
Likes: 0
From: Edinburgh
Nah this one was blue and the guy driving it was middle aged - in my discussions with him I got the impression he didn't know much about the S2000 (sort of went like this):
Me <peep>"Hey, you wanna go together?"
Him "Sure"
Me "Nice r32, always like them"
Him "Thanks, whats under the hood of that?"
Me "2.0l"
Him "Cool, is it modded?"
Me "Just a single exit exhaust for a bit more grunt and a lot more noise!"
Me "this should be pretty close, both cars are about the same"
Him <raised eyebrows>
1,2,3 GO
<caught, passed and gubbed>
Him "wow, that's not slow"
Cha-think
Me <peep>"Hey, you wanna go together?"
Him "Sure"
Me "Nice r32, always like them"
Him "Thanks, whats under the hood of that?"
Me "2.0l"
Him "Cool, is it modded?"
Me "Just a single exit exhaust for a bit more grunt and a lot more noise!"
Me "this should be pretty close, both cars are about the same"
Him <raised eyebrows>
1,2,3 GO
<caught, passed and gubbed>
Him "wow, that's not slow"
Cha-think
Banned
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 31,739
Likes: 69
From: Survivalist enclave
Originally Posted by Saxo Boy,Feb 17 2006, 01:58 PM
Have you compared with an e46 M3 gad. Is there any difference at all?
The M3 feels a tad nimbler around corners, and you sit lower
The M5 feels faster in a straight line
I just felt the M5 was different class in terms of presence, versatility, size and build quality
As it should be as the big bro to the M3
Something like a
Banned
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 31,739
Likes: 69
From: Survivalist enclave
Originally Posted by GSi,Feb 17 2006, 03:28 PM
I think you're confusing me with the hairdressers version the Z3M is a far more capable car than most realise
as is the case with all M cars
Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 23,296
Likes: 830
From: Nottingham
.. you can compare an R32 with an S2000 just like you can compare a boxster S and the 350Z.. they're not leagues apart.. but GSi's car will gobble up and sh1t out any of these cars.i'm still not buying it though
Registered User
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 1,999
Likes: 0
From: Nottinghamshire
Originally Posted by Nottm_S2,Feb 17 2006, 03:53 PM
.. you can compare an R32 with an S2000 just like you can compare a boxster S and the 350Z.. they're not leagues apart.. but GSi's car will gobble up and sh1t out any of these cars.i'm still not buying it though
. Once the wheels stop spinning. GSI I seem to remember not long after you got the coupe that you thought the rear was a little on the er.... greasy side. Is it fixed now
I actually really like the mzcoupe id forgotten about them. These are a perfect example of a car with bags of character, ugly as fook but hard looking. A bit like Jimmy Nail, not blessed with a pretty stick but youd sooner be with him in a dodgy pub than Peirce Brosnan.
I do like the look of the new mz4coupe. There you go gaddaffi theres 3 beemers i like.