A friend at work has a brand new 04 M3 with the standard 6spd tranny. I have driven the car and it is very quick (beautiful inside and out also). I finally got to run him in my car from a 10mph roll up a steep grade (only open space we could find during early morning rush-hour traffic). I had a car length on him by 70mph when we had to shut down due to a light. We were not able to go again due to heavy LA traffic.

The only change from my sig is I now have 245/50/16 nitto drag radials. Big difference.

A friend of our's has an 03 M5 that is currently at a Dinan authorized dealer getting the full S2 package that is supposed to be 478hp at the flywheel. Once he gets the car back all 3 of us are getting together to run our cars.
We will be videotaping the whole thing for all to enjoy.

 

cool those new M3's are fast...cant wait to see the vid.

 

MmMmMmMM

 

Nice kill.

 

Thanks. I thought he was going to smoke me but that time around things worked out. I am looking forward to airing those drag radials down and getting them really hot. I think with the extra traction I should beat both of those cars from a standing start, (the M5 has 19' ac schnitzer wheels with rubber bands on them. he will either bog with the traction control on or spin like crazy with it off).