Peed off with the 335i already
29 January 2008, 07:32 PM
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Apparently thorney motorsport are announcing a full range for the 335i THIS WEEK, including a full exhaust option!!
Birds UK are the only people doing diffs as far as I know, as official Quaife suppliers.
PS yep I know glentress very well, spooky wood is one of my faves. Off to Penmachno at coed y brenin on sunday after the oulton park day, although current forecast is for snow!
29 January 2008, 07:35 PM
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Either way its still 5mpg better than my m5 and double what the E60 M5 touring would have got!!
29 January 2008, 07:38 PM
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29 January 2008, 08:07 PM
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Prices currently range from 499 to about 699 for a piggback chip, but there is as far as I know no 'remap' option yet due to BMW encrypting the ECU, partly because the turbos make it very tunable and partly as I hear they are planning a range of official tuning parts, kinda like PPP. (1 series range is just about to launch)
Apparently thorney motorsport are announcing a full range for the 335i THIS WEEK, including a full exhaust option!!
Birds UK are the only people doing diffs as far as I know, as official Quaife suppliers.
PS yep I know glentress very well, spooky wood is one of my faves. Off to Penmachno at coed y brenin on sunday after the oulton park day, although current forecast is for snow!
Apparently thorney motorsport are announcing a full range for the 335i THIS WEEK, including a full exhaust option!!
Birds UK are the only people doing diffs as far as I know, as official Quaife suppliers.
PS yep I know glentress very well, spooky wood is one of my faves. Off to Penmachno at coed y brenin on sunday after the oulton park day, although current forecast is for snow!
Cheers Ed.
More likely to stick to the Scoob route, say an 06 STi, (due to funds !), but that kind if info is always interesting for petrol heads.
Yup, Glentress & Laggan are a lot of fun, although my regular trips across the Pentland Hills near home are well suited to my (limited) skill level.
PS - downhill on a bike in fresh snow can be a whole lotta fun !
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29 January 2008, 09:50 PM
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Ahhh the penny drops.
The 850 T5R is a completely and utterly different car
The real mcoy V70R i.e the one i'm referring to has niether the T or a 5 asscociated with it in anyway whatsoever it was also about £10K (GBP) more expensive than the lesser T5 version at just shy of £40K on the road.
The 2007 V70R is a far, far more capable car than its predecessors
For starters, The V70R has a complex Ohlins suspension setup with adjustable damping and rebound settings at the touch of a button. Not to mention the very sophisticated DSTC system.
Road Tests: Volvo S60 and V70 R Road and Track Test
I particularly draw your attention to the penultimate test paragraph.
Light up and enjoy that crack pipe once more
The 850 T5R is a completely and utterly different car
The real mcoy V70R i.e the one i'm referring to has niether the T or a 5 asscociated with it in anyway whatsoever it was also about £10K (GBP) more expensive than the lesser T5 version at just shy of £40K on the road.
The 2007 V70R is a far, far more capable car than its predecessors
For starters, The V70R has a complex Ohlins suspension setup with adjustable damping and rebound settings at the touch of a button. Not to mention the very sophisticated DSTC system.
Road Tests: Volvo S60 and V70 R Road and Track Test
I particularly draw your attention to the penultimate test paragraph.
Light up and enjoy that crack pipe once more
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29 January 2008, 10:40 PM
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29 January 2008, 11:18 PM
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means nothing, like daz is saying, these cars are miles away from the new version of the v70r/s60r, I still think the bmw handles better tho.
30 January 2008, 10:47 AM
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If I wanted a 4wd estate, I would look to the B7 RS4 avant (which I also test drove) not a Volvo.
31 January 2008, 01:33 AM
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Ahhh the penny drops.
The 850 T5R is a completely and utterly different car
The real mcoy V70R i.e the one i'm referring to has niether the T or a 5 asscociated with it in anyway whatsoever it was also about £10K (GBP) more expensive than the lesser T5 version at just shy of £40K on the road.
The 2007 V70R is a far, far more capable car than its predecessors
For starters, The V70R has a complex Ohlins suspension setup with adjustable damping and rebound settings at the touch of a button. Not to mention the very sophisticated DSTC system.
Road Tests: Volvo S60 and V70 R Road and Track Test
I particularly draw your attention to the penultimate test paragraph.
Light up and enjoy that crack pipe once more
The 850 T5R is a completely and utterly different car
The real mcoy V70R i.e the one i'm referring to has niether the T or a 5 asscociated with it in anyway whatsoever it was also about £10K (GBP) more expensive than the lesser T5 version at just shy of £40K on the road.
The 2007 V70R is a far, far more capable car than its predecessors
For starters, The V70R has a complex Ohlins suspension setup with adjustable damping and rebound settings at the touch of a button. Not to mention the very sophisticated DSTC system.
Road Tests: Volvo S60 and V70 R Road and Track Test
I particularly draw your attention to the penultimate test paragraph.
Light up and enjoy that crack pipe once more
As far as all the miles done in those 2 cars, there was not one, I say again not one problem. To this day no other car has managed to have such a good record in my experience.
Nowadays I have to side with the BMWs, not so much the Scoobys (for other reasons) as I used to.
I can understnad where you are coming from, but as I said, it had a time and place and it is not now.
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03 February 2008, 10:38 PM
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Drifting was fun, but not nearly as fun as the drive from Oulton to Betws-y-coed. Once the diff is done and the run flats are dumped, and at the very least some braided hoses and dot5.1 fluid, this will be a seriously quick, sorted automobile. I even love the tiptronic paddle shift!!!!
I'm happy as a pig in ****!
03 February 2008, 10:40 PM
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Let me come back to you on that after the trip to chester and back. The car is currently reading 24mpg but no idea when it was last reset. BMW quote 30 and one guy on e90post got 31mpg on a steady 80mph mway but I think that's the exception to the rule.
Either way its still 5mpg better than my m5 and double what the E60 M5 touring would have got!!
Either way its still 5mpg better than my m5 and double what the E60 M5 touring would have got!!
) and 60. That also includes getting half way across central london in traffic!I got 18mpg on a hard driven section over wales, and the same on the drift day. All-in-all not bad IMHO!
04 February 2008, 12:15 PM
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WTF does it matter if it's an estate? It's a 300bhp, well sorted rwd car. Of course you wouldn't buy it just to go drifting
but I only have room for one car (again as I've tried to explain numerous times) and I'm damn well going to have as much fun in it as I can!I really don't care if you get it or not, but it's my car, and it makes perfect sense, so as I say don't worry yourself about it. You seem to be the only one with an 'issue'.
Maybe you should just not worry about it so much and not bother posting on this thread any more if you don't get it, you really aren't adding anything new or interesting.
thanks
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04 February 2008, 01:53 PM
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Also there's nothing funnier than an estate car whipping past so called "sports" cars with a dishwasher or fridge in the back
Any wonder why Legacy GTB TT prices are going up!!
04 February 2008, 02:26 PM
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It's like I have explained several times to you before (but that for some reason you keep 'forgetting'), the day was originally booked for my M5, which I swapped out of 2 weeks earlier than planned due to finding an ideal 335i touring very quickly.
WTF does it matter if it's an estate? It's a 300bhp, well sorted rwd car. Of course you wouldn't buy it just to go drifting but I only have room for one car (again as I've tried to explain numerous times) and I'm damn well going to have as much fun in it as I can!
I really don't care if you get it or not, but it's my car, and it makes perfect sense, so as I say don't worry yourself about it. You seem to be the only one with an 'issue'.
Maybe you should just not worry about it so much and not bother posting on this thread any more if you don't get it, you really aren't adding anything new or interesting.
thanks
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WTF does it matter if it's an estate? It's a 300bhp, well sorted rwd car. Of course you wouldn't buy it just to go drifting
but I only have room for one car (again as I've tried to explain numerous times) and I'm damn well going to have as much fun in it as I can!I really don't care if you get it or not, but it's my car, and it makes perfect sense, so as I say don't worry yourself about it. You seem to be the only one with an 'issue'.
Maybe you should just not worry about it so much and not bother posting on this thread any more if you don't get it, you really aren't adding anything new or interesting.
thanks
Ed
I can just picture some geeky middle aged bloke trying to recapture his youth drifting his beemer around the streets of London.
City Types, some of them are just priceless!!
04 February 2008, 02:49 PM
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Not only are you over sensitive but you're also damn rude. I was only asking what the fascination with drifting a big family car is. I think even with the M5 its questionable as it's also not that sort of car. But like you say each to their own.
I can just picture some geeky middle aged bloke trying to recapture his youth drifting his beemer around the streets of London.
City Types, some of them are just priceless!!
I can just picture some geeky middle aged bloke trying to recapture his youth drifting his beemer around the streets of London.
City Types, some of them are just priceless!!
Its RWD, it will drift
No mater the size of the car or whatever it is, its RWD and very rewarding to hold a controlled drift in a controlled environment. Can't see your problem really, maybe your just jealous because those scooby's can't drift 
04 February 2008, 03:09 PM
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What I can't understand is why someone would build a caged, highly modded scooby then fill it full of heavy amps and subs??
04 February 2008, 03:13 PM
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