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← Continued from Page 2 of "BMW Driving Experience: How To Manhandle a BMW M"The driving position in the BMW M3 tells you all about the car. Everything is just where it should be when speed is your aim, but the seat is not uncomfortable. The generous padding keeps you well in place and your body doesn’t have to pay a toll for this.
Nice, now let’s not hit those cones. The red ones show it's time for barking, but if I want to beat the others I’ll have to ignore this warning and bring the M3’s chin down after I’ve passed them.
The “track” is tight and here’s where the M3 feels natural. The car responds to your every move as if it had predicted it and here through the narrow gaps its linearity is much more useful than the tons of forced induction torque delivered by the M6.
BMW’s M3 is extremely easy to connect with. It feels down to earth and it lets you exploit its performance with ease. As you drive it hard, the car seems to shrink around you. The M3 is not a big car, but when you drive it fast it seems even more compact.
As we completed lap after lap, we all learned from our mistakes, especially since Claudiu delivered his advice with mind-blowing reaction time. He does even have to look at you all the time. Hearing you lifting off to early or too late for a certain corner is enough.
Since we didn’t clip too many cones, we got a bonus at the end of the lesson. A shotgun ride, with Claudiu driving heavy-footed. While the M3 can drift, it doesn’t necessarily want to do that, so the M6 is a much more natural choice for the drifting laps. In the end, it didn’t matter, as he drifted both for us.
I jump in the back of the M6 Coupe, not due to the fact that I’m a masochist, but because I wanted to see how it also feels from that position. We were expecting to start sideways, but the first part of the course is done in a clean way, so that we understand how we should've performed. Nice lesson you cheeky trainer!
Nevertheless, as we go through the u-tun, the rear end insists on exiting first. Claudiu’s throttle imputs are gentle, we’re not here to cover the entire area in smoke, we just want to dance a bit.
As he balances the twin-turbo V8 toy from one side to another through the slalom, it’s all so fluent that I get into some sort of a trance. I must be in a sugar coma. Yes, this whole show was in fact a generously-sized cake baked for the newborn M6 Gran Coupe. We met the extrovert coupe in Detroit back in January and we were invited here to celebrate its launch in Romania. An EUR114.400 ($150,000) four-door coupe that can deal with the o to 100 km/h sprint in 4.2 seconds deserved such a welcome party.
Oh and there’s also an afterparty. BMW is set to introduce its Driver Training in Romania in the following months. I guess the efforts not to hit that many cones were worth it, now they trust us with their cars. Big mistake.
Nice, now let’s not hit those cones. The red ones show it's time for barking, but if I want to beat the others I’ll have to ignore this warning and bring the M3’s chin down after I’ve passed them.
The “track” is tight and here’s where the M3 feels natural. The car responds to your every move as if it had predicted it and here through the narrow gaps its linearity is much more useful than the tons of forced induction torque delivered by the M6.
BMW’s M3 is extremely easy to connect with. It feels down to earth and it lets you exploit its performance with ease. As you drive it hard, the car seems to shrink around you. The M3 is not a big car, but when you drive it fast it seems even more compact.
As we completed lap after lap, we all learned from our mistakes, especially since Claudiu delivered his advice with mind-blowing reaction time. He does even have to look at you all the time. Hearing you lifting off to early or too late for a certain corner is enough.
Since we didn’t clip too many cones, we got a bonus at the end of the lesson. A shotgun ride, with Claudiu driving heavy-footed. While the M3 can drift, it doesn’t necessarily want to do that, so the M6 is a much more natural choice for the drifting laps. In the end, it didn’t matter, as he drifted both for us.
Nevertheless, as we go through the u-tun, the rear end insists on exiting first. Claudiu’s throttle imputs are gentle, we’re not here to cover the entire area in smoke, we just want to dance a bit.
As he balances the twin-turbo V8 toy from one side to another through the slalom, it’s all so fluent that I get into some sort of a trance. I must be in a sugar coma. Yes, this whole show was in fact a generously-sized cake baked for the newborn M6 Gran Coupe. We met the extrovert coupe in Detroit back in January and we were invited here to celebrate its launch in Romania. An EUR114.400 ($150,000) four-door coupe that can deal with the o to 100 km/h sprint in 4.2 seconds deserved such a welcome party.
Oh and there’s also an afterparty. BMW is set to introduce its Driver Training in Romania in the following months. I guess the efforts not to hit that many cones were worth it, now they trust us with their cars. Big mistake.
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