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Why you should buy this car:
You like power, speed and reliability all wrapped up in a compact, five-seat package. You accept no imitations. You like driving. You loved your Porsche 911, but need room for baby seats. You don't need to brag.
Why you shouldn't buy this car:
You're likely to ask "What do you mean it doesn't come in 'P***Y Magnet' Yellow?" You think girls are impressed by the size of your wing. You think the internal combustion engine is evil and loathe it in all of its forms, but especially the finest. You're a believer in that whole 'Speed Kills' thing.
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2008 BMW M3, Part Three
Why you should buy this car:You like power, speed and reliability all wrapped up in a compact, five-seat package. You accept no imitations. You like driving. You loved your Porsche 911, but need room for baby seats. You don't need to brag.
Why you shouldn't buy this car:
You're likely to ask "What do you mean it doesn't come in 'P***Y Magnet' Yellow?" You think girls are impressed by the size of your wing. You think the internal combustion engine is evil and loathe it in all of its forms, but especially the finest. You're a believer in that whole 'Speed Kills' thing.
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12:00 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Wes Siler
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Latest by photophile: I like how the top speed is limited to 155mph. Make you wonder how fast it can actually go. more »
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Exterior Design: ***
The 2008 BMW M3 sedan, depending on whom you ask, is either ugly or boring. We think it's a bit of both. But, packing supercar performance into a compact package that won't turn heads is definitely a positive thing. If anything, the M3 isn't subtle enough, we'd take ours — and boy how we'd take one — sans bumps and bulges. We'll add a star for any buyer savvy enough to order theirs with the badge delete option checked.
Interior Design: ****
One part subtle mixed with one part tacky, the 2008 is classic M3. Any car that combines classic BMW-type faces and design language with both red and blue stitching is a winner in our book. We'd specify either black or white for the leather, but the as-tested red is certainly, umm, eye catching. As with any BMW, the controls are precisely where your hands or feet expect to find them, making this interior work better than it looks.
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2008 BMW M3, Part Two
Exterior Design: ***The 2008 BMW M3 sedan, depending on whom you ask, is either ugly or boring. We think it's a bit of both. But, packing supercar performance into a compact package that won't turn heads is definitely a positive thing. If anything, the M3 isn't subtle enough, we'd take ours — and boy how we'd take one — sans bumps and bulges. We'll add a star for any buyer savvy enough to order theirs with the badge delete option checked.
Interior Design: ****
One part subtle mixed with one part tacky, the 2008 is classic M3. Any car that combines classic BMW-type faces and design language with both red and blue stitching is a winner in our book. We'd specify either black or white for the leather, but the as-tested red is certainly, umm, eye catching. As with any BMW, the controls are precisely where your hands or feet expect to find them, making this interior work better than it looks.
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12:30 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Wes Siler
5,768 views,
47 comments
Latest by camp6ell: @Bumblebee: maybe it's a Mr Polar? more »
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IndyCar League Makes Play for Relevance With F1-Style Qualification
Indy Racing League plans on rolling out a new gridification system during the upcoming St. Petersberg race and it will look a lot like the street racing version of things done over at Formula 1. Instead of being a one man one track run against the clock, cars will be slotted on the grid by way of elimination rounds. The cars will be split into even fields and race for twenty minutes, the leaders go on and the trailers fill up position thirteen and back. The top twelve will run in another heat lasting fifteen minutes from which the bottom six will be slotted in spot twelve through seven. More »
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The 2008 BMW M3 puts the world around it in fast forward. No, this isn't some function hidden deep within the still befuddling iDrive or a secret performance setting achieved by hitting B, A, B, A, Select, Start; just an inherent ability to twist the world over its power dome and past its windscreen at a nearly impossible speed. Neither is this the kind of garden-variety performance achieved by the average big engine, small car formula. Remember how cheesy '80s action shows would speed up the tape during chase scenes? The resultant mix of unbelievably flat cornering and inexplicably rapid oncoming traffic just ended up being unbelievable and inexplicable. But not in this new M3.
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2008 BMW M3, Part One
The 2008 BMW M3 puts the world around it in fast forward. No, this isn't some function hidden deep within the still befuddling iDrive or a secret performance setting achieved by hitting B, A, B, A, Select, Start; just an inherent ability to twist the world over its power dome and past its windscreen at a nearly impossible speed. Neither is this the kind of garden-variety performance achieved by the average big engine, small car formula. Remember how cheesy '80s action shows would speed up the tape during chase scenes? The resultant mix of unbelievably flat cornering and inexplicably rapid oncoming traffic just ended up being unbelievable and inexplicable. But not in this new M3.More »
12:30 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Wes Siler
8,313 views,
84 comments
Latest by piththeelder: Adamskiy: You win. I hereby chnage my plans to install Iowahawk's replica of the jet powered supercharger. I must run the 1/4 in 7s. more »
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Garage 419 Catches Clutch Change at 24 Hours of Daytona
The chaps at Garage 419 pulled embed duty at the 24 Hours of Daytona and they've got the behind the behind the scenes look at some of the action of the famed race. At 22 hours in, the top running Farnbacher Loles car had the clutch let go, signaling some unwanted garage time. The GT3 Cup car's team manages a swap in only a half an hour - amazing considering the trans has to come out to get that done. [via Garage419]
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1546 HP Twin Turbo Dodge Viper GTS Dyno Run
This has to be the loudest UPS truck we've ever heard. It's really important to notice during this dyno run how the hand held camera is shaking during one of the pulls. So it may not be quite as insane as the 2,200 hp quad turbocharged V8 we saw on Friday, but it's definitely more streetable, and has up to 100% more Dodge Viper GTS. This sucker is obviously set up for drag racing though following the advice of the video and going to UndergroundRacing.com gets us no additional info on the car. We did dig up pictures of the beast though, and its pretty sick. This almost makes us sad that the Viper is as good as dead these days. How much you want to bet these guys have already rented an oversea container to Poland?
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Big Block With Four Turbos, Witty Headline Impossible
We had to reload this the first time it popped up, as we couldn't believe what our eyes were telling us. This serpentine piece of steel poetry is a 442 ci V8 sporting four independent turbochargers, all running through an intercooler. The entire system is modular and can be dropped into a drag-racing host as a single piece. Four turbos. Four! And big, bus-sized ones at that. The madmen behind this are Mike Moran and John Meaney, and they've whipped up a doozy of an engine. Anybody can slap on four turbos and call it a day, but this thing has a couple of extra tricks up it's sleeve.More »
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Biggest Pileup in NASCAR History
A headline like that is like announcing Takera Kobayashi as the fastest hotdog eater in the world, or the Spice Girls to be the suckiest band ever — you run the risk of something coming along and going to the next level. Like Joey Chestnut. Or The Pussycat Dolls. This crash footage is from a time when we would have been really excited about NASCAR, unlike yesterday's half-assed coverage of the 2008 Daytona 500. More »
daytona 500
2008 Daytona 500: Winner Ryan Newman
After a three lap sprint to the finish after some BS caution shenanigans Ryan Newman is the winner of the 2008 Daytona 500. We certainly bagged the first 9/10ths of the race, but the final couple of minutes was less than unexciting. Congratulations to team Alltel and all the work that went into securing the victory. We look forward to not understanding the ramifications to the points system and later making more generic racing jokes at the expense of the NASCAR. It's been a pleasure to bring you this lackluster coverage, now to tend to that waitress...
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2008 Daytona 500: Many of Final Laps Surprisingly Run Under Caution
Yeah, between laps 187 (on the mu f**n cop) and lap 192, things were tightly controlled by that Corvette Z06 Pace car. Making things incredibly exciting. Wait... hooooooooly crap look at the sparks form underneath Casey Mears' car, looks like the fourth of July in the poor kids neighborhood. Of course those sparklers lead to another series of caution laps, but oh no, there they go, final 3 laps... hang on to your butts.
daytona 500
2008 Daytona 500: Spinouts... FINALLY
Though it didn't involve fireballs or barrel rolls, there was a spin out on lap 176. Jimmie Johnson got loose in turn 2 and got a bit friendly with Sam Hornish Jr. and Martin Truex Jr. during the spinny aftermath. Nobody was seriously damaged or forced out of the race, but it's way more exciting than staring at the salt crystals on the table.
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2008 Daytona 500: Finally, Something Happens
We were elbow deep in delicious burger when David Ragan slammed into the wall creating major damage to the front of his generic sponsormobile, so please excuse our lack of relevant crappy photo of the television. Instead, we assumed you'd enjoy this vaguely disturbing hirsute tribute to the Intimidator. With Ragan's shenanigans in play, the field was shuffled around and now everybody's favorite son Dale Earnhardt Jr. is leading the pack.
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2008 Daytona 500: Three Quarters Done
Maintaining its ISO14001 enviable zero lost time accidents record, the 2008 Daytona 500 forges on. Even though many pitstops have occurred which we should be interested in, the cute waitress who just started her shift is way more engaging than this race. At this point, every telecaster worth his stones is delving into the minutia of NASCAR mechanics in an attempt to make this race exciting. If you are an actual fan, things have probably been pretty interesting... More »
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2008 Daytona 500: Lap 109, Sweet God in Heaven. It's More Than Half Over
Lap 80 saw some pace car action from "debris on the track", which is entirely less exciting than "massive fireball" or "barrel roll of death from hell", but it did give many of the competitors a chance to fuel up or re-tire. We're looking outside right now at Michigan's rain over snow at 46 degrees, while enviously watching Daytona's 77 and sunny and quietly hating everyone there. We would consider it fair if the fans in the stands also had to sit through as many unfunny Semi Pro ads as we're enduring. Also, Matt Kenseth is in the lead, is that newsworthy?
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2008 Daytona 500: Lap 74, Kyle Busch Leads
If hockey and bowling had a kid, it would be more interesting than this race so far. Does anybody watch NASCAR for the race? No. Every fanboy out there watches it for the crashes. Don't give me that crap about team work and the precision of the pit stop. I want to see carnage. I'm not an ogre though, nobody wants to see wanton injury, but come on, we're 74 laps into this thing and NOBODY sees fit to accidentally fidget behind the wheel? Not so much as a puff of tire smoke. Waitress... another please!
daytona 500
2008 Daytona 500: That Didn't Take Long, Denny Hamlin Steals Lead
It's lap 35, and while we didn't capture the moment it happened on Fox's Gopher Cam, Denny Hamlin (who?) has wrested the lead from his other template car drivin' buddies. We're on the edge of our seats and despite the overwhelming onslaught of "Built Ford Tough" ads, we're sticking with this bitchin' race... all the way
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