Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just took a test drive of the BMW series 3 and 5 the other day - they were released here quite recently - and was amazed at the handling...and the utter lack of comfort for passengers at the back. Give me a Honda any day - great engines, with much better overall comfort, and a third of the price. Cheers Jayanand On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com> wrote: > > Nice article and picture. > > Like with Leica M, the BMW M "3" is more popular around here than the "5", > for understandable reasons. Unless you don't make dragstrip races or need > to > carry larger suitcases, I'd definitely prefer the M3 over the M5. The M3 is > lighter and thus faster and significantly handier in the curves, faster in > acceleration (at least below 200 km/h), and still has almost the same top > speed (assumed it's not blocked anyway). Try both on he N?rburgring and you > know what I mean. > > Didier > > On Sat, 03 May 2008 17:34:16 -0400, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > > A BMW M5 is the car. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >