Dream Car Thread

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

Finding myself gazing longingly at every Tesla I see.

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

310 kph in a drag race is insane in the US?
I know a guy who went that on a Autobahn in a Porsche Panamera. Now that's insane (and should be highly illegal which it unfortunately isn't...).

It's not the fact that the speed is a lot for a drag race....it's the fact that there's a modded Mustang that accelerates that fast at a 1/8 mile.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

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It's not the fact that the speed is a lot for a drag race....it's the fact that there's a modded Mustang that accelerates that fast at a 1/8 mile.

Well if you have a V8 engine pushing 1,000hp you'll have a fairly rapidly accelerating vehicle. Not really that shocking to me personally. Also to Germans sped is a whole different ballgame. You'll see cars traveling well past 160MPH over on some sections of the autobahn.Once at night in the fall got a 1987 BMW M3 up to 235KMH(146MPH) that was just an inline 4 cylinder with a few modifications even at that speed I got passed that is actually the fastest I have even driven a vehicle that I was physically driving. Now I rode once with a German friend in a "Yellow Bird" (RUF) Porsche 911 we got to 323KMH(201MPH).

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Well if you have a V8 engine pushing 1,000hp you'll have a fairly rapidly accelerating vehicle. Not really that shocking to me personally.

Well, yes....doesn't "shock" me...but I thought it was cool enough to share.

Also to Germans sped is a whole different ballgame. You'll see cars traveling well past 160MPH over on some sections of the autobahn.Once at night in the fall got a 1987 BMW M3 up to 235KMH(146MPH) that was just an inline 4 cylinder with a few modifications even at that speed I got passed that is actually the fastest I have even driven a vehicle that I was physically driving.

It's also a BMW....BMW is allowed to go that fast casually in a road-going 4-cylinder. I'd love to have an older M3.

They produced a 4 cylinder F1 racing engine that said squeezed out 1400HP in 1986.

[Stealhead]

That M3 is easily my favorite past vechile I did not keep it as in order to ship a car to the US they require the car to meet FDOT emission standards for the year of manufacture and any US spec BMW is less powerful than Euro spec.

That car had outstanding steering though and a great transmission it was not a cozy car though pure performance the clutch was strong so much so that a person not used to manual transmissions would have a very hard time. But in that car I truly felt like one with the car,myself and the road. I miss driving down the hilly back roads of Rheinland-Pfalz. I drove that car many places though every western European country except the British Isles. I also drove in the Czech Reublic and Slovakia. A Slovakian cobblestone road took out the oilpan once had to pay a high price on that they knew supply and demand and for me need was high.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

That M3 is easily my favorite past vechile I did not keep it as in order to ship a car to the US they require the car to meet FDOT emission standards for the year of manufacture and any US spec BMW is less powerful than Euro spec.

Our car import laws are the stupidest laws we have.

It's something like you have to wait 25 years after a car is discontinued before you can import it as a collectors item or something. Idk.

That car had outstanding steering though and a great transmission it was not a cozy car though pure performance the clutch was strong so much so that a person not used to manual transmissions would have a very hard time. But in that car I truly felt like one with the car,myself and the road. I miss driving down the hilly back roads of Rheinland-Pfalz. I drove that car many places though every western European country except the British Isles. I also drove in the Czech Reublic and Slovakia. A Slovakian cobblestone road took out the oilpan once had to pay a high price on that they knew supply and demand and for me need was high.

Sounds like a perfect car. Don't need bells and whistles...just performance.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

Our car import laws are the stupidest laws we have.

It's something like you have to wait 25 years after a car is discontinued before you can import it as a collectors item or something. Idk.



Sounds like a perfect car. Don't need bells and whistles...just performance.

If the vechile is over 25 years old it is not required to met spe otherwise its hardly worth the effort.

Indeed the older BMWs where much more performance focused back then now they are posh well not as posh as a Mercedes but close. To me at leat last 80's was the stylistic peak of BMW cars.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Indeed the older BMWs where much more performance focused back then now they are posh well not as posh as a Mercedes but close. To me at leat last 80's was the stylistic peak of BMW cars.

I agree.