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Is it just me, or are BMW's slow as?

Raced another 1.8i the other day and totally left him for dust and i had 3 people in my car whilst he had just himself, ive also managed to keep up with a 2.5 Auto hahah god knows how.

For the amount of money these people spend on there BMW's i really dont think there worth it.

Anyone else shamed BMW's ?

Calâ„¢

CalvinGTI wrote:Is it just me, or are BMW's slow as?

Raced another 1.8i the other day and totally left him for dust and i had 3 people in my car whilst he had just himself, ive also managed to keep up with a 2.5 Auto hahah god knows how.

For the amount of money these people spend on there BMW's i really dont think there worth it.

Anyone else shamed BMW's ?

Calâ„¢

Just M3's and M5's - they get everso upset for some reason when a 13 yr old Vauxhall makes em look dog slow - so it wasn't in the Polo

As to there value or worth - I can't stand the attitude of the drivers - the cars themselves are fine - I had a very happy day last year driving a 328i coupe round a circuit not to far from me - nice balanced chassis good feedback and you could showboat the tail end out nicely on the slower corners

Yea your prob right bstardchild, its the drivers that make them the way they are, i myself could be quite contented cruzin down the road in a Nice 330 CDi



They do think they own the roads though, always nice to put them in there place.

You put yr viper stripes on yet bstardchild ? :¬P

Calâ„¢

CalvinGTI wrote:You put yr viper stripes on yet bstardchild ? :¬P

Calâ„¢

No-one has done a set I like yet......

Maybe you should go for some originality?

you could have a 'swervy' line instead of the straight Viper ones. One that cut across your bonnet and then over the side of the roof and down the back quarter.

Could look good

Calâ„¢

Used to have fun in the G a few years back doing such things...and that was standard, the peeps with quick ones must have permanent smiles.

i wasted a 318i im liverpool on saturday! two lads in a 318i convertable and me 4 up, destroyed him! ha ha ha ha ha ha! he was prob a drug dealer so it was a good job i got away

haha dubpolo, isnt it great when u overtake a bigger engined car with less ppl in it then you have

and ive got 17"s too !!!!!!

*hi-fives dubpolo*

Calâ„¢

i bloody love polo GTI's, everybody thinks, "its just a polo!" and then the boot goes down

and even better, the 318i is a 1.9 litre

My mate's got one and its good fun leaving him standing!
although rear wheel drive does make it handle nice...

from the evidence of this morning, i'd say also that Merc S500s could be outpaced by a Fiat 500 with a following wind..

or maybe the driver forgot which pedal did what and its enormous powerplant was just wafting it along at idle..

Tahrey1043 wrote:from the evidence of this morning, i'd say also that Merc S500s could be outpaced by a Fiat 500 with a following wind..

or maybe the driver forgot which pedal did what and its enormous powerplant was just wafting it along at idle..

You get a lot of that around these parts. Particularly when you're on a slight incline with a heavy bass guitar amp in the boot and a passenger in the front. I've only ever managed to make one successful overtaking manouver of anything other than a JCB or a milkfloat, I swear everything conspires against me whenever I'm in a situation where I'd like to..

GroovyCarrot wrote:You get a lot of that around these parts. Particularly when you're on a slight incline with a heavy bass guitar amp in the boot and a passenger in the front. I've only ever managed to make one successful overtaking manouver of anything other than a JCB or a milkfloat, I swear everything conspires against me whenever I'm in a situation where I'd like to..

The art of overtaking when burdened with a distinct lack of bhp can be sumarised with three key points

1. planning
2. planning
3. A run up!!!!!

ie to accelerate past something doing a any speed when you are travelling at the same speed requires a lot of horses with no planning

Turn it on its head and with carefull planning how long does it take to get past something when you are doing 15 mph more!!!

Of course never forget if it all goes pete tong always have an escape plan

yep - a pragmatic attitude, and cursing a lot also helps!

i ran into that merc tw*t three times

each time he was causing a bloody hold up, and each time it was in the worst possible place

eg approaching a (wide) hump back bridge that has lots of parked cars after it, down a country lane where it would be plenty possible to overtake, were it not for the nob coming the other way in a silver car with no lights blending into the light morning mist (roadsigns 200m past him easily visible) until the last second, cue aborted manuever.

why is it that the white van always gets out of the way at the bottom of the forgotten steep uphill bit of the motorway where his torque comes to the fore rather than your peak power/aerodynamics, and where you were previously rushing towards, you're now in a truck-like inch-by-inch battle to see who's the first to reach 80mph and slog past the other..? (it levelled off, so i won)

need more power ... just a bit... ability to do 85 on inclines where its now 70-75 will be just right, cheers.. hehe

by the way, something discovered since using the M42 - if you're gonna slipstream anything for either economy or gaining extra advantage in a 1-litre, make it a Merc Sprinter Luton truck. Can't beat the aerodynamic boost available from something that's the size of a student flat but is doing 75mph already Why are they so rare everywhere else?

I quit regularly embarrass myself in my Beemer
It's a piece of s**t that cost £80
couldn't pull your pants down, never mind pull away from another car. Its an 80's style one.

I once raced my mate in my old slow Golf GTi mk2 8v and we were literally neck& neck up to 80 when an 8v runs out of puff then he crept away, that was an L plate 318is (135bhp 16v). I was quicker through corners though

So there you go, if you can keep up/ beat an average mk2 8v you can do the same to a beemer. Probably a 2.0 one as well as they aren't so tuned iirc