The only person that believes your 8 year old car is better than a new 328i is you.[/quote]
Yeah, sure. Numbers don’t lie man. You can talk about mag racing all you want. Tell me when your 328i can do 14 sec flat on the quarter mile or when you start taking your 328 to a real race track. Until then, you’re just imagining things and making things up.
[quote=paramount]At any rate, I’m not a realtor and thus not part of the 1%, so my idea of fun more or less applies to the 99%ers.
A 328i is realistic for many, a M3/5 and a lot of other car you mention is not.
A BMW M Series borders on the exotic.
BTW AN, I tore up a G37 today in the carpool lanes. Once the powerband kicks in on my 328i the only thing you’ll be seeing is my dorsal fin (that little fin thingy on my roof).[/quote]WTF does being in the 1% or 99% have ANYTHING to do with having fun cars? FYI, a used 2006 M5 is going for around low $30k. It’s CHEAPER than a brand new 328i. A used M3 is even cheaper. So, if anything, you got your facts backward. FYI, a used 2006 M5 will be MUCH MUCH more fun to drive than the newest 328i.
M3/M5/M6 ARE NOT borders on exotic. That just show how much you know about cars. They’re just supped up 3/5/6 series. They’re much your fun to drive than their mundane base that it came from. But to say they’re near exotic is LUDICROUS. Their performance numbers can’t even touch a $50k Camaro, how can you even claim they’re borders on the exotic?
A 328i tearing up a G37? Was he stuck in non-carpool traffic or was he braking? Either that or he didn’t even noticed you tried to race him. You sound like those supped up Civic who tried to race everyone and say they tear $hit up when the other person didn’t even know you’re racing them. I DO NOT condone street racing. If you wanna prove that your 328i can tear $hit up, show me your time slip at the quarter mile. Until I see 1/4 time slip that’s faster than 14 seconds, you got nothing on my lowly 8 years old car or the new G37.
Just for reference, here’s the 328 dyno chart:
So, please do tell, where in the power band did you start noticing the “powerband kicks in”? The only time I hear anyone talking about power band kicking in are either from turbo folks who have turbo lags or Honda and Celica GT-S folks who are referring to when their VTEC/VVTL kicks in.
Just for additional reference, here’s the G37 dyno:
Here’s the dyno of a car like mine, but stock: A couple of points to keep in mind. Mine’s not stock and at no time in the power band does a 328i make more power than either of these cars. Another laughable fact is that, the peak torque for the 328i is only 185 ft-lb. The only time either of these two car make that little torque is <2k rpm (i.e. near idle) and in my car case, when I'm about to shift. Even at red line (when the G37 runs out of breath), it makes more torque than the 328i can make at peak.
Also, FYI, that "dorsal fin" is your XM antenna. 😀
