"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
12/09/2014 at 22:13 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
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Alright. My mother said someone had to go get milk. I said I would go. Dad gave me the keys to his almost a year old 435i xdrive. It's his retirement gift to himself. I took my wife with, since we are not frequenters of close-to-posh things. Interesting......It's lux-re-uhs!
It's not going to ever be anything like a 3-series or M5. It's built to blitzkrieg the on ramp and warp drive the autobahn's big sweeping curves. This is not for track days. This is not for comparing to any BMW race car or track car. this is for travelling 900 miles in fifty-eight minutes to that business meeting at the bank.
I used it to get milk. It was night.
On the way back, we happened upon a nice open wide road with a lack of traffic. Foot to the floor. I don't know what a seventy-three year old man needs with sixty in under five seconds. The inline six, with my foot to the floor, sounds somewhat muffled what with a few turbos to breathe through and all. It's sort of like a glorious screaming orgasm into a pillow. Only the attentive will notice it's song. My wife uncontrollably said, ". .jesus. ." and we were at ninety.
That was enough. The speed limit sign no longer had numbers on it. Jail it said instead. The car pulls with locomotive stylings. Eight speeds of automatic feels very strange. but the power and torque is so fat with that transmission, it's not so much pummeling my back with gear changes but more or less pulsing waves of thrust. So, can I call the acceleration buzz-bomb like?
They do make an M4. I'm sure that's more track ready. The regular 4 series is a sweet ride, but it's not the sports car people expect from BMW. It's a businessman's GT interstate destroyer with a great ride when you want it.
VonBelmont
> Grindintosecond
12/09/2014 at 22:17 |
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Welcome to the German dreadnought club!
heliochrome85
> Grindintosecond
12/09/2014 at 22:20 |
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Welcome sir. Its pretty grand on this side of things.
AM3R shamefully returns
> Grindintosecond
12/09/2014 at 22:31 |
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drive a non xDrive and it'll feel way sportier. Try one with a sport suspension and it's even better.
Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
> Grindintosecond
12/09/2014 at 22:41 |
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90, that's it? My mom's car, an 08 328i, was in the shop one day, and she was given a loaner 2014 328xi. No I6, but the turbo 4. She came down to visit me at college and I wanted to drive it. Now, I'm used to having my foot constantly on the go pedal in my 2002. I get in this thing, on roads I very familiar with. Speed limit is 45, btw. Mom says slow down. I look down and I'm doing over 80. No noise, no commotion. No intention on going fast. So, when I say 90, it seems off. I'm used to a loud car that lets you know it's doing 15, not 90. I think it's too easy to go fast these days.
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Grindintosecond
> Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/09/2014 at 22:48 |
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ninety had to do with my wife who, i coudl tell, about to object as well as the rapidly approaching stop sign at the end of the open road that I probably didn't describe perfectly. It was wide, open, empty, and overall short. A speeding ticket at this point in life would also be detrimental to my future career. I mean seriously stopping future progression in my industry. So I is paranoid whenever the speed limit is broken, especially when entering the auto-jail realm of it.
DipodomysDeserti
> Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
12/09/2014 at 22:56 |
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I'm the same in my wife's 335d. That thing gets up to 100 very smoothly. I'm used to driving my E30 or my Abarth and they let you know you're going fast.