BMW and M Power Owners
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Courtesy I guess, I dunno. Habit really
(and so you cant check and see its really a 520d EfficientDynamics of course)
[TW]Fox;22741417 said:Thought you guys might be interested in a few pics of the car I hired for a bit whilst on holiday last weekend:
My boss just bought one of them on Friday!, red interior and privicy glass. Bloody lovely and sounds amazing!
The interior looks lovely, but if you go pushing stuff it creaks lots more than a BMW should. Under the central air events where there is a gap and that surround around the central vents too are annoying but the passenger seat belts have a habit of rattling a but if not put back perfectly and the seats creak at the bottom, though this fades mostly when the car is up to temperature. The doors too have some noises from them, nothing major and not all the time but not something that I like to hear from a German car.
Tyres are garbage but we know that so let's see what getting rid of run flats does. I hope you smashed the backside out of that Foxy and took 10,000s out the 'tires' in 50 miles.
Tyres are garbage but we know that so let's see what getting rid of run flats does. I hope you smashed the backside out of that Foxy and took 10,000s out the 'tires' in 50 miles.
The end result of me driving the **** out of an F10 M5 would have been an F10 M5 shaped hole in the nearest wall. I enjoyed it - especially on the Autobahn - and I did test its performance as much as I could - but I felt it best not to abuse it
The performance was absolutely sensational - I've never experienced anything like it. Just a relentles surge of power right into frankly bonkers speeds. Which made me wonder really - it was great fun being able to open it up legally on the Autobahn but I just wonder what you'd do with such a car here in the UK. Every brush of the pedal would be accompanied by a shattering of any speed limit you can think of - you'd need to be so careful all the time. It's also a fairly huge thing - which is great as thats the sort of thing I like - but you'd need to have no fear or exceptional skills to hustle it down a twisty B road.
I loved it - it was fantastic and it remains my favourite car I think - but unless I was fabulously lottery-winner wealthy I don't think I'd actually want to own one as it simply doesn't offer Mr Average enough that a 535i or similar doesn't almost offer unless they've got access to a race track or an Autobahn or an unlimited use Shell giftcard.
If that makes sense.
It's a car for people who have enough wealth that they'd never ask how much a service cost or care how much fuel it used beyond making sure it wouldn't need filling up too often on the way to ones second home in the Alps.
Glad I took it out though. Box ticked
The performance was absolutely sensational - I've never experienced anything like it. Just a relentles surge of power right into frankly bonkers speeds. Which made me wonder really - it was great fun being able to open it up legally on the Autobahn but I just wonder what you'd do with such a car here in the UK. Every brush of the pedal would be accompanied by a shattering of any speed limit you can think of - you'd need to be so careful all the time. It's also a fairly huge thing - which is great as thats the sort of thing I like - but you'd need to have no fear or exceptional skills to hustle it down a twisty B road.
I loved it - it was fantastic and it remains my favourite car I think - but unless I was fabulously lottery-winner wealthy I don't think I'd actually want to own one as it simply doesn't offer Mr Average enough that a 535i or similar doesn't almost offer unless they've got access to a race track or an Autobahn or an unlimited use Shell giftcard.
If that makes sense.
It's a car for people who have enough wealth that they'd never ask how much a service cost or care how much fuel it used beyond making sure it wouldn't need filling up too often on the way to ones second home in the Alps.
Glad I took it out though. Box ticked
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Did he turn the volume up then?
Just joking.
It does indeed look awesome, though I prefer the blue.
How was the sound? Was their much lag? How did it feel compared to your old 335i, power and engine wise? I really like the look of the F10 but really is a big car. Thats not somethinf that normally bothers me, but i find my e92 quite tight in some car parks/driveways/b roads and i think the F10 would just be too big.
It sounded fantastic. If I didnt already know about the 'recorded sound' thing you'd never tell. It just sounds exactly like a V8 M5 should - fantastic. More muscular the 335i for sure - it also felt noticeably bigger, too. It felt enormously huge when I first got in - the first task was to get out of that carpark as you know which was a bit nerve wracking, probably a combination of the size and the fact it was LHD
That carpark under BMW Welt is horrible. The barrier to get out of the carpark felt narrow as hell in a 135i let alone an F10 - to the point i thought itd be impossible to get an F10 out of that barrier and there must be another way out. That and the fact that i still had the words of the guy still ringing in my ears ("You kerb an alloy, it is €100"). A relatively cheap fun experience could have turned into an expensive one before i'd even left the car park!
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There's an F10 M5 in the car park at work every day (same colour as Simulatorman's IIRC) and they're definitely bigger than the E60.