Did you know that a BMW M3..........
 

....Can easily go 140 KPH in 1st gear?


Then, when switched into second....It buries the punk that is trying to race you from the center lane with his mom's car.


I've never seen Cambo so scared. :1orglaugh

Yes I did, but don't tell Cam that jact told me that :winkwink:

This thread need a videos!

Did you know that it also has faster piston speeds than an F1 engine?


:2 cents:

YUM ///M

Yea definately, because an M3 goes exactly 108kph in 2nd gear at 8200rpm

UUUMMMM


If you say so, I would love to see a vid of that. Do you have one of them??

i wish my M3 went that fast :(

Take good care of my car. I mean Cam's car. I love driving that baby!

WG

You two aren't allowed to go through any more intersections with it though.

140 ?!? 1st gear ?!? You are gonna burn your engine ...

try the launch control...and watch the tires smoke!

Cam is one crazy bitch, he was trying to get me to Top mine out when it was hurricane weather and tree's were falling on the road down here.

I wish. For some reason...Cam was not interested in doing it again with the video camera running.

Jact was in the back seat though......He can give a good play by play.

Maybe we will try it again tonight.......Jact......Bring the new camera. :thumbsup

He was curled up in a ball like a little girl last night.

He made some sort of a joke about me losing my driving priviledges up here. Fuck that. :glugglug

Manual or SMG?

The BWM service shop is going to love you! =O)

I was learning how to use the paddle shifts on the steering wheel.

I know fuck all about BMW's.....WTF is SMG?

If it has the paddles it's an SMG(sequential manual gearbox)

SMG is Cam's car.
WG

I am not a fan of the SMG to be 100% honest. No idea how that fad came in for the expensive cars.

i have always loved the M3

Gotcha. :thumbsup

I think I need to rent one and drag race Cam.

I found it had a learning curve.Once you get through that,it's really a nice system.You have the performance you want..and it shifts faster than any human ever will.. 8milliseconds in full sport mode,and it can be docile in city traffic.

Translation:

It's pretty fucking fast when it needs to be. :winkwink:

The best feature of the SMG in the M3 is the 'launch control' feature. Shift in to neutral, hold the button to shift up and put the accelerator to the fire wall, the electronic throttle control will dial up 3500 RPM, when the light changes to green let go of the up-shift button, the clutch will engage and the traction control will stop the wheels from spinning. There you are the perfect launch.

i now have a goal :)

I think Cam needs to replace the back tires before we pull that shit.

:winkwink:

I've got to replace those things every 10 000km. It sucks

Learn to drive your car. :)

I say that we intentially blow them out THEN you replace them. :thumbsup

The downside on this story is that you can only repeat it 15 times until your clutch has to be replaced (and not under warranty! :warning )

SWEET!

I'm on it!

haha :1orglaugh

This thread reminds me of a story.. Oh wait, the story got told in the first post.

The young punk in the turning lane was screaming at Aaron and motioning that he wanted to fight, I'm not even sure why he wanted to fight, I just happened to notice him in the turning lane with his fists up and his girlfriend crying and screaming and awaiting death, and then Aaron racing him, and squashing his pathetic little Impala, then us getting up to a stop light beside him and him completely blowing the light tires squeeling to get away from us. Funny, he was the one calling us on? :winkwink:

85+mph in first gear? yeah right...

jact-

how old are you?

I take it you have never driven an M3. :glugglug

I want one:glugglug

i doubt he would lie

some weirdo called me today at lunch time.

HAHAHA! I do that in the Z4! It's fun with the roof down... boys don't like to have their asses kicked by GIRLS! :1orglaugh

You've read my mind...

:thumbsup

140kph in 1st? :1orglaugh

And yes I've driven an E46 M3... the gears are stupidly short.

Not nearly as old as baddog, but then, who is other then Moses? But old enough.

Hahahahah! I would have loved to see this. The idiot tried to race you with an Impala? :1orglaugh

I think I'd avoid racing an M3 with my 350-Z, let alone an Impala. :1orglaugh

If the gears were long enough for it to get 145kph in 1st then it would be a dog off the line.

BMW claim 5.4 seconds 0-100kph... it would never get close to that if the ratios were long. It doesn't have huge torque (262nm) and it reaches peak torque at a lofty 4900rpm.

BS everywhere in this thread.... where's that tool that said M3's have the same piston speed as an F1 car? :1orglaugh

I have an M3 and yes there is learning curve on the SMG. Some days I find myself saying "I hate this car"! How can I say that though? Just seems so ridiculous to even think it, but I get frusterated with that shifting.

#1 I do manual shift. I hate the auto shift-- the timing on is sucks and its not smooth at all. It's too jerky, so I manual shift and I do not use the paddle shifters, haven't got that down yet.

#2 Its like this.....the car is a stick, but you have no clutch and no control. Like I take off in 1st and the car starts jerking back and forth (you know when you firsted learned to drive a stick) and it won't stop. You can't put the clutch in to stop it, you just have to shift and then you are going all slow, etc. Errrrkkk! I have not figured out what I am doing to make this happen, but it happens quite often no matter how smooth I try to take off.

My husband thinks I am nuts of course, because he thinks its just great and never has any of these issues. So, I have to think maybe its me LOL :) Anyway--anyone else ever have these issue with the SMG?

It's very common with highly tuned engines in general, though Medium Pimpin's program owner has a 2002 SMG M3 and it drives nothing like Cambo's 2004 SMG M3, it has none of the jerkyness at low RPMs that you're talking about whatsoever and it's got quicker response times. I think it's mostly just the tuning.

at least some pics