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Old 06 July 2005 | 11:14 AM
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Every morning i pull on to the M4 and accelerate from 60 to about 100 than back off to 80, this morning just as i was redlining the scooby in 2nd at the top of the slip road out of the corner of my eye screamed past an M5 closely followed by an RS4, you should have heard the V8 of the bimmer, pure music! So i thought to myself, good oportunity to see what the 265bhp PPP is made of against some german uber-barges.

oh dear

i caught them up as they were stuck behind a gimmeroid at 80, once the slower car had moved out of the way the bimmer took off like an F14 flighter with the RS4 and me trying hard to keep up, not a chance in hell! the M5 simply sprinted off to about 140, me and the RS4 simply gave up at 115 with the audi also walking all over my scooby. we both backed off down to 80 and continued our journey safe in the knowledge that M5 beats RS4 beats WRXPPP.
Old 06 July 2005 | 11:33 AM
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It's just the order of things..... all is normal with the world We must accept our place.
Old 06 July 2005 | 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by jimby
Every morning i pull on to the M4 and accelerate from 60 to about 100 than back off to 80, this morning just as i was redlining the scooby in 2nd at the top of the slip road out of the corner of my eye screamed past an M5 closely followed by an RS4, you should have heard the V8 of the bimmer, pure music! So i thought to myself, good oportunity to see what the 265bhp PPP is made of against some german uber-barges.

oh dear

i caught them up as they were stuck behind a gimmeroid at 80, once the slower car had moved out of the way the bimmer took off like an F14 flighter with the RS4 and me trying hard to keep up, not a chance in hell! the M5 simply sprinted off to about 140, me and the RS4 simply gave up at 115 with the audi also walking all over my scooby. we both backed off down to 80 and continued our journey safe in the knowledge that M5 beats RS4 beats WRXPPP.
Funny thing happened last night. I was just plodding about in Scoob when a M3 came zooming up behind me. Now it was really wet so I just carried on plodding along until I came to a round about, then I gave it a bit of right foot, the M3 did the same. The view in my rear view was hillarious, the M3 was facing the wrong way have seriously spun out.
Now I know it's not clever, but it was funny.
Old 06 July 2005 | 11:53 AM
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M5 = king of beamers ...not your usual M3 rubbish

Was looking in autotrader yesturday..there is even a few for round the £16k mark...tempted
Old 06 July 2005 | 12:16 PM
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M5 = king of beamers ...not your usual M3 rubbish

Was looking in autotrader yesturday..there is even a few for round the £16k mark...tempted
Yes, but you'll spend that again everytime you need a new set of tyres (weeeelllll maybe £1k)

Seriously though, I know of a few people who had the same idea, but just couldn't afford the running costs, so sold it within 6 months!

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Originally Posted by jimby
Every morning i pull on to the M4 and accelerate from 60 to about 100 than back off to 80, this morning just as i was redlining the scooby in 2nd at the top of the slip road out of the corner of my eye screamed past an M5 closely followed by an RS4, you should have heard the V8 of the bimmer, pure music! So i thought to myself, good oportunity to see what the 265bhp PPP is made of against some german uber-barges.

oh dear

i caught them up as they were stuck behind a gimmeroid at 80, once the slower car had moved out of the way the bimmer took off like an F14 flighter with the RS4 and me trying hard to keep up, not a chance in hell! the M5 simply sprinted off to about 140, me and the RS4 simply gave up at 115 with the audi also walking all over my scooby. we both backed off down to 80 and continued our journey safe in the knowledge that M5 beats RS4 beats WRXPPP.
How many speed camera's did you go through in the process?
Old 06 July 2005 | 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by phelpsa
Yes, but you'll spend that again everytime you need a new set of tyres (weeeelllll maybe £1k)

Seriously though, I know of a few people who had the same idea, but just couldn't afford the running costs, so sold it within 6 months!

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Oh I don't know, I've managed to keep a Scooby on the road for quite some time

And obviously having the tools at hand, so all service work is done my myself (I bet main dealer costs are £££££££££ ). Just the question of whether the engines blow up as regularly as they do on an Impreza
Old 06 July 2005 | 01:20 PM
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hmm....400bhp vs 380bhp vs 261bhp......

would have thought the RS4 would have plenty enough poke to stay with the M5 as its lighter...ive seen one positively destroy an M5, although it had been remapped naturally.
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Originally Posted by Neilo
hmm....400bhp vs 380bhp vs 261bhp......

would have thought the RS4 would have plenty enough poke to stay with the M5 as its lighter...ive seen one positively destroy an M5, although it had been remapped naturally.
New M5 = 509bhp
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Had a play with an my00 M5 in my lightly modded MY99 scoob

Was fun for a while down the lanes but on the d/c he just took off like a scolded cat.



M5's are great cars and i would love to own one.
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Originally Posted by Gutmann pug
New M5 = 509bhp
He didnt specify it was a new one....
Old 06 July 2005 | 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by jimby
Every morning i pull on to the M4 and accelerate from 60 to about 100 than back off to 80, this morning just as i was redlining the scooby in 2nd at the top of the slip road out of the corner of my eye screamed past an M5 closely followed by an RS4, you should have heard the V8 of the bimmer, pure music! So i thought to myself, good oportunity to see what the 265bhp PPP is made of against some german uber-barges.

oh dear

i caught them up as they were stuck behind a gimmeroid at 80, once the slower car had moved out of the way the bimmer took off like an F14 flighter with the RS4 and me trying hard to keep up, not a chance in hell! the M5 simply sprinted off to about 140, me and the RS4 simply gave up at 115 with the audi also walking all over my scooby. we both backed off down to 80 and continued our journey safe in the knowledge that M5 beats RS4 beats WRXPPP.
A funny thing happened to me today as well on the M4.
I was checking some speeds from passing motorists and an M5 went passed my camera at 135mph... Got him.
Followed by an Audi RS4 at 110mph ... got him
followed by a subaru at 109mph, I got him as well

Probably will all get banned for 6 months at least. I love my job
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Thats No joke by the way.

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Old 06 July 2005 | 01:56 PM
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Awwwwww, ya spoilt that one
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