Top Gear Tonight

whitey wrote: The word "fragile" cropped up a few times which is worrying. Diffs blowing and that dreaded ABS light again...............All on a brand new �60k car? ... I still maintain that the last true quality BMW made was the e34 and the e30's. New M5????? Too complex in my mind. We need to get back to basics and have PURE ///M cars again.

Agreed - the Last True M car was the E30 M3.
Up to then BMW built M Race cars and THEN built road M cars.

Now they build a road car, and then decide to create a M model out of it - at vast expense!    

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Watched it again tonight. Still mightily unimpressed.

Whats the point of being able to adjust the fierceness of the gear change?? Just make it a b****y manual and I'll change it as fiercly as I want! And when are they going to give up on this i Drive menu nonsense? No wonder people crash. They are too busy trying to find the radio station they want. Whereas I just push number 4 on the head unit for Kiss fm or number 6 for heart, Mr. 60k next to me crashes trying to do the same function.

After my experiences with my own e39 and other late BM's, I'd save my money and get one of the last 3.8 e34 M5's (the last pure M car??) and a late e38 for the weekly trawl through the traffic.

whitey wrote: After my experiences with my own e39 and other late BM's, I'd save my money and get one of the last 3.8 e34 M5's (the last pure M car??) and a late e38 for the weekly trawl through the traffic.

everyone to their own
whitey don't know what your experience of the E39 was like but it must've been bad.

Having previously owned a late E34 M5 which was absolutely out of this world and now moved onto the E39 M5, apart from the later being more refined I feel that it doesn't detract anything from the car to make it a true M car.
2 cars which in my opinion richly deserve the tag of a true M car and I'm sure given time the latest generation will be accepted as one too

before everyone starts there is no doubt that the E30 M3 is a true M car



stevie

on a related Top Gear note, does anyone remember the cheap porsche segment last series where they bought a 924, a 944 and a 928?

a bit of background on how Jezza came by his purchase....

http://www.928.org.uk/mambo/content/view/69/43/

good option for payg dial-up users, alternatively you can download all the episodes if youve got either a quick broadband connection or an unmetered dial-up and a lot of patience...

http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?query=top+gear

to download these youll need a bittorrent client first, i suggest www.bittornado.com

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i agree, the vuk rips are hefty in size but excellent in quality, heres an example from the week before  

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Thanksvery much, Its actually virtually as standard except for the huge 850CSi BBS's

Monday's Croft pics here

Tonights episode should be interesting, pitting a 5-series diesel against a 5-series petrol

Prefered the bit with the buggies..

They could do a bit on second hand cars from the 80's and 90's for under 10k and 5k..