Your dream car?

[Scotracer]

Enough talking, pics or don't bother posting.

05+ E46 M3 (preferably in Alpine White or light shade of gray)


I've mentioned this before in another thread, but a personal goal is to own a 05+ E46 M3. And since I have an obsession with white vehicles, it will most likely be in Alpine White, a near perfect match for my white Silverado.

May I ask why the E46? It was generally slated for poor steering feel and being a bit "porky". I myself am test driving a E36 M3 Evo this weekend as a possible alternative to my Integra. Now THAT's a real M-car

[safeaschuck]

Maybe what I need is a car like the Lotus Seven... but with a lower Cd and stronger suspension. I cant understand why there isnt a car manufacturer like that in this remote part of the world!

No market?

I bet you manufacture the car I have in my mind and it will sell as warm bread. Light, fast, cheap and reliable. Maybe a roofed version of this???

Add a Hayabusa engine at the back and hell will unleash

I've seen one of those tearing up an autocross track with a very neat Scooby flat four motor install to replace the VeeDub aircooled unit. It was a non-turbo (probably wise). It sounded brilliant and went like --- off a shovel.

One day when I have figured out how to get the drive to the wheels without buying custom driveshafts or diff housings I'm going to put a bike engine in my Mk1 Golf, that's as close as I care to get to owning a dream car, sadly it will have no end of mechanical gremlins, probably need an engine re-build every 1000 miles and be a nightmare to insure so it's not really very dreamy. In fact it would be almost as awful as the other cars I owned which people who look at them think, hey thats a cool car, wish I had one of those. No you don't mate. No you don't.

[peteskar]

Dream car, well this is a hard question that as a "gear head" I get asked alot. A 1934 ford would be cool, but then I have to play with stuff and would most likely break it at new england dragway. It would have to be a Ferrari, but which? The 250 GTO is an amazing car, and you won't see 3 at Starbucks sorry all you that think your 360 modena is different. I have kids (2) so I would have to think like a parent, so I think I would go with the 612. Once there out of college then the F50 would be of interest. Be interested to see what my dad thinks.

[donskar]

250 GTO 64 (with the air foil in rear of roof)
330 P4
Dino 246
275 GTB 4-cam
312P (either the first one, with V12, or the later, and more successful, flat 12)
1940 Willys with blown 426 Hemi
1934 Ford 3-window coupe
Nissan 240SX with RB26 transplant

[donskar]

double

[freedom_honda]

Got quite a few.

Honda NSX-R (NA1)
Ferrari 430 Scuderia
Ferrari FXX
Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4
Ariel Atom (The one with a supercharged Honda engine)
Chevy Camaro SS
Aston Martin V12 Vantage

[donskar]

[quote="mx_tifosi"]Enough talking, pics or don't bother posting.



A picture of a dream? Hmmmm . . . .

[modbaraban]

A picture of a dream?

[Scotracer]

A picture of a dream?

I saw one of them last week. Very nice.

[mx_tifoso]

Enough talking, pics or don't bother posting.

05+ E46 M3 (preferably in Alpine White or light shade of gray)
[img]http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/image.php?u=73701&type=sigpic&dateline=1211594888[img]

I've mentioned this before in another thread, but a personal goal is to own a 05+ E46 M3. And since I have an obsession with white vehicles, it will most likely be in Alpine White, a near perfect match for my white Silverado.

May I ask why the E46? It was generally slated for poor steering feel and being a bit "porky". I myself am test driving a E36 M3 Evo this weekend as a possible alternative to my Integra. Now THAT's a real M-car

By not having driven the E46 M3 as of yet, I can't criticize or applaud its steering feel or handling. But I've come to find out that not all that journalists write is true, and that numbers don't tell the whole story either. And forgive me for being so cheesey, but it is kind of like love in that it can't be explained so easily.

And some of the 'porkiness' can be releaved by using lighter wheels and removing the rear seats, the latter being completely useless as NO ONE would ever sit in them. But then again weight isn't the biggest concern for a road going GT car that would seldomly get track time. And it wouldn't be a daily driver either, BTW.

And as an aside, I've never been very fond of the E36 nor the new E92. So the E46 M3 is the one for me, kind of like a version of the red riding hood story .


Keep me updated on your track day event...

[jon-mullen]

It might be a result of growing up in the mid-90s but I still like the looks of the E30 and E36, and think they really messed it up with the E46 and the E90. Compared to their boxy brethren the new ones just look kind of middle-aged and flabby... Not to mention the tail on the new 6-series looks like sh*t.

Edit: not to mention they stole the new body line from Audi.

[gibells]

It might be a result of growing up in the mid-90s but I still like the looks of the E30 and E36, and think they really messed it up with the E46 and the E90. Compared to their boxy brethren the new ones just look kind of middle-aged and flabby...

I think you're right. I do really love the old E30. Especially the M3. I think a spiritual replacement of the E30 is the 1 series coupe. I would love one. The 3-series nowadays is just too big.

[mike]

i LOVE the E30 and thats from a kid who is younger than the NSX
i dont mind the E46, but some1 gone though all the trouble to put a S85 in a E30 with front and rear subframe conversions from the E90.
they must have really been in love with the E30
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2929437

[ESPImperium]

At the moment, the Abarth 500 is the one that i really like for a little bit of everyday fun;

[kikomatsing]

I love the Lotus Elise