If you follow the link and look in the BMW top ten, there's an even more photoshopped image of one doing 198mph, 319km/h with only 520ps (512bhp). Drag Coefficient? Humbug to you, Sir!
I wish I could afford a real copy of Adobes product, as my budget Paintshop Pro can only manage 170Mph on my images
Ivan
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Why, you reckon it's too clear an image to have been taken at 180?
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Originally Posted by IvanDias
Bah! Rubbish!!
If you follow the link and look in the BMW top ten, there's an even more photoshopped image of one doing 198mph, 319km/h with only 520ps (512bhp). Drag Coefficient? Humbug to you, Sir!
I wish I could afford a real copy of Adobes product, as my budget Paintshop Pro can only manage 170Mph on my images
I guess that if you make the assumption that the car in question is std, then that speed is not likely to be true road speed.
Theres quite a lot of mechanical tolerance on the far end of a analogue speedometer drive.
Ive seen over 175 MPH on mine but there was no way that it was actually doing that speed. Much more likely to be as AndyE stated & confirmed by GPS.
Thats not to say that under favourable conditions that they wont do over 170mph, far from it. It has been documented by a road test undertaken in 1994 that the 3.8 will do this speed, but 170 mph was the outright top speed recorded.
I would be sceptical of 180 mph however. As Ivan says ,I also think its big frontal area & drag factor would NOT allow to go that fast with std power output
Farrell
Last edited by farrell; 24th November 2005 at 20:20.
And lets face it 167 or 170 as tested by Autocar is a pretty good speed for an 10 - 11 year old car.
Also when Autocar got to 170 that was in 5th! This was also one of the articles that made me want an E34 all those years ago.
The test was against the then current Audi S6 and the then new XJR
earlier in the verdict they stated " the S6 efficent and refined though it is, does little more than scratch at the surface of the BMW's deep talents...."
"It (the XJR) loses to the BMW in the end because the M5's driving talents are simply overwhelming."
Last edited by Simonal; 24th November 2005 at 23:22.
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