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I've burned up over one hundred hours of vacation over the course of the last six months. Good thing I start earning four weeks per annum as of next week, I haven't had less than two weeks vacation sitting there doing nothing in several years now. I'm down to thirty one hours of vacation and twenty four hours of sick leave. Woe is me; whatever shall I do?
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robeli and I took a BMW convertable out for a test drive the weekend before last. After taking a test drive, she says she's a majority of the way to being convinced. Excellent.
And yes dear, of course I know you're reading this.
All I can say is holy shit. It drove wonderfully; stuck to the road like it was superglued down, has a nice responsive 235bhp 3.0L inline 6 for an engine, and a 6 speed manual tranny mated up to 18"F/18.5"R low profile tires with big GIANT ventilated rotors on all four (ABS of course) that stop like it was free and corner like being on rails. I'm in lust.
Oh yeah, and the roof disappears at the touch of a button. We had to test drive the M3, as they didn't have any 330ci models with the Performance option and the manual tranny (the engine in the M3 has slightly more power than the straight 330(c)i w/Perf. pkg (and the dual exhaust on the M3 is a little more throaty sounding, but I prefer quieter anyway...the 330i is 225, w/perf is 235, I think the M3 might be 240 or 245 (I was wrong, it's 333bhp), but it's not much different), but not enough that it'll make any real world difference). Anyone who'd buy that car with an automatic transmission deserves to be taken out back and shot.
All the other shit that BMW throws on a car is just icing. There are better performing cars out there, but not with 4 seats and a roof that retracts.
If money didn't matter and I didn't need room for a carseat, I'd hunt down a 1989 930 (911s haven't been 911s internally since the 70s, it's a marketing number these days) Turbo Carrera conv. and ask that nice Mr. Ruf to work his magic. I'd kill for a 911 chassis that did 206mph. and still managed to be street legal, and that's what Ruf does to Porsches.
I love this disc, but I'd make one change to make it really ideal; I'd drop "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" and put "Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters" on it instead.
robeli and I took a BMW convertable out for a test drive the weekend before last. After taking a test drive, she says she's a majority of the way to being convinced. Excellent.And yes dear, of course I know you're reading this.
All I can say is holy shit. It drove wonderfully; stuck to the road like it was superglued down, has a nice responsive 235bhp 3.0L inline 6 for an engine, and a 6 speed manual tranny mated up to 18"F/18.5"R low profile tires with big GIANT ventilated rotors on all four (ABS of course) that stop like it was free and corner like being on rails. I'm in lust.
Oh yeah, and the roof disappears at the touch of a button. We had to test drive the M3, as they didn't have any 330ci models with the Performance option and the manual tranny (the engine in the M3 has slightly more power than the straight 330(c)i w/Perf. pkg (and the dual exhaust on the M3 is a little more throaty sounding, but I prefer quieter anyway...the 330i is 225, w/perf is 235, I think the M3 might be 240 or 245 (I was wrong, it's 333bhp), but it's not much different), but not enough that it'll make any real world difference). Anyone who'd buy that car with an automatic transmission deserves to be taken out back and shot.
All the other shit that BMW throws on a car is just icing. There are better performing cars out there, but not with 4 seats and a roof that retracts.
If money didn't matter and I didn't need room for a carseat, I'd hunt down a 1989 930 (911s haven't been 911s internally since the 70s, it's a marketing number these days) Turbo Carrera conv. and ask that nice Mr. Ruf to work his magic. I'd kill for a 911 chassis that did 206mph. and still managed to be street legal, and that's what Ruf does to Porsches.
I love this disc, but I'd make one change to make it really ideal; I'd drop "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" and put "Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters" on it instead.
