BMW M3 for the weekend - AMA

"505 - morphine not found" (morphine500) 06/26/2015 at 11:12 • Filed to: BMW M3

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I got a surprise phone call this morning, which ended me up in the press BMW M3 until Monday morn’. It’s blue-on-orange, with the M Performance exhaust and double-clutch ‘box.

Will do photos, and maybe a short report, but no, I won’t be doing drifts on a closed circuit, nor will i do launches and quarter miles. That’s what !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . I have already driven it in downtown traffic, and will do a night trip to the hills and a cross-country trip with the family during the weekend.

So is there something specific you want me to try and find out about the car?

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 11:16

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Will it daily?

505 - morphine not found > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 06/26/2015 at 11:28

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well i can tell you it’s not bad around town, though it’s probably thirsty, and the gearbox isn’t the most comfortable with pootling around traffic at 10 km/h . But coming up are packing it with stuff and kids, so we’ll know more later.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 11:30

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Stuff and kids. Quite the test there.

505 - morphine not found > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 06/26/2015 at 11:35

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Weeeeell I could say I laid the plans for the weekend before i got the car, because that’s true, but fact of the matter is my kids love speed and hoonage, so would get them aboard anyway. But then I will also get a bicycle for one of them tomorrow, and that will have to fit in the trunk. No idea, if it will, but I’ll be damned if I don’t take the M3 anyway.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 11:35

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Take the wheels off. That might work.

505 - morphine not found > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 06/26/2015 at 11:38

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Yes, I’m planning for that, packing wrenches.

spanfucker retire bitch > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 11:47

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Are you all of a sudden instinctively compelled to park across multiple parking spots?

505 - morphine not found > spanfucker retire bitch 06/26/2015 at 12:01

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Very good question, and no, I’m not, on the contrary - i had to park just next to a disabled park place today, and took great care to leave more than enough room if anyone wanted to park there. No weaving around lanes either. I’m much more of a model citizen in this than in my own 505.

Never took my shades off tho.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 12:06

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Will it blend?

Connqr > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 12:10

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Maybe a Vs test against other generations if possible. Also, can it off road better than a crossover? And try hypermilling it. That would be entertaining.

46and2aheadofme > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 12:13

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Wait, are you saying that the M performance exhaust is an OPTION on the M3?

46and2aheadofme > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 12:21

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Will it baby? Not sure how old your kids are but it’s a serious question. We have an E92 M3; it was always my dream car. Baby came along and the car seat would not fit. So I got an E60 M5 (which as it turns out is actually my dream car and man does it baby way better). But now my wife won’t sell the M3 because she loves it. So we’re Two Ms and a Baby (new username?) and I feel guilty, people with new babies are not supposed to have this much fun in their garage. Is the new M3 > e60 M5 + e92 M3?

ly2v8-Brian > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 12:24

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Does it sound good?

505 - morphine not found > ly2v8-Brian 06/26/2015 at 14:13

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In normal mode, no. If you switch to Sport Plus mode on the gas pedal settings, then the butterfly valve opens up the exhaust, and then it goes to 11 - i giggled at every squirt of the gas and cried out loud under every overpass. Awesome.

505 - morphine not found > Connqr 06/26/2015 at 14:15

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I will measure consumption, just topped it up and reset everything an hour ago. Not sure about off-road though....

And sorry I don’t have access to previous generations. I did drive the current M5 two years ago, and this is way more fun, feels faster too, although probably isn’t, at least not in a straight line. In short, the size different shows.

505 - morphine not found > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 06/26/2015 at 14:16

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Squirrels yes. Into the background no.

505 - morphine not found > 46and2aheadofme 06/26/2015 at 14:21

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I don’t know... yet. My kids are not babies anymore (10, 8, 5), but will have to sit in all three, so we’ll see how they fit. The seat seems very deep in the back, not much legroom before it though, and the M seatbacks are hard. It does however split-fold, and those blinds in the trunk are 120cm long.

Connqr > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 14:23

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Alright, that’s fine. Hopefully offroading though.

505 - morphine not found > 46and2aheadofme 06/26/2015 at 14:26

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I’m not sure what to think. I seem to recall they mentioned it as news at a recent press event, but then on the options list there’s no such box to tick. Probably just some small change in the design?

46and2aheadofme > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 14:59

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Ah, gotcha. I would laaaaaaugh if a dealer tried to charge me extra for an M exhaust on an M!

(Not that I’m baller enough to actually buy a new M3. But in this scenario maybe I put on my nice jeans and went for a test drive and now I have to suffer through a sales pitch.)

ly2v8-Brian > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 15:39

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That's good to know.

Smoggi - powered by 3 cylinders > 46and2aheadofme 06/26/2015 at 16:46

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The car comes with the normal ///M exhaust from the factory but you can get a dealer installed M-Performance Exhaust I think. Probably just louder.

potentialthreat > 505 - morphine not found 06/26/2015 at 16:52

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What are a couple features in the car that you would like to see in other models?

46and2aheadofme > Smoggi - powered by 3 cylinders 06/26/2015 at 16:56

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Razor marketing approach: //////M exhaust.

505 - morphine not found > potentialthreat 06/27/2015 at 13:22

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I would say that it’s good only performance cars are like this, would diminish our choices greatly, if every other car had the same features. However, there is one thing: you can change how loud the exhaust is on this (and on a lot of Ferraris and Aston Martins and the like) and that’s something i would even like on a three-cylinder city car. When you are having fun, then louder = better, whatever your motor.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > 46and2aheadofme 06/29/2015 at 14:13

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Don’t let go of those 18 cylinders of NA glory!