I've had a little experience with them now.. My friend Nathan in Santa
Barbara just got one, and he's totally in love with it. He describes it as
a beast. I'm trying to get him up here for an autocross by convincing him
he could probably trade fun runs for something different.. Like maybe a Cobra..
I also stopped by the BMW club's track event at Sears Point last weekend to
take pictures of a friend. A guy from the east coast flew out and
"borrowed" a 350Z with a 6-speed transmission for the weekend, and he and
the folks who got rides with him were very impressed. He bashed the stock
tires for being even more pathetic than they would have imagined and he
laughed about the absurd lack of cargo capacity for a car of it's
size. Other than that, he had nothing bad to say, and he mentioned the
impressive torque several times in our short conversation... Not bad for a
BMW zealot at a BMW track event.
When we started prying plastic bits off, we discovered that the brace
inside the "trunk bridge" is indeed large enough to justify that huge
plastic monstrosity that sucks up all the room. It's just a huge(!)
body-colored square hunk of metal that connects the shock towers.. Perhaps
they'd intended it to be a useful spot for mounting a fifth-wheel hitch.
I'll keep working on Nathan!
Jake
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