What car is this? (@ Mont Tremblant)
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What car is this? (@ Mont Tremblant)
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Mont Tremblant in Quebec
The driver gets it a bit crossed near the end on a left-hander.
-forward opening hood
-looks like an EVO hood
-straight cut gearbox/loud rear end noise
-no apparent turbo lag
Will
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Mont Tremblant in Quebec
The driver gets it a bit crossed near the end on a left-hander.
-forward opening hood
-looks like an EVO hood
-straight cut gearbox/loud rear end noise
-no apparent turbo lag
Will
-who thanks you for some ideas
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Re: What car is this? (Willard)
Sounds like more than 4 cylinders. Smoother. Possibly a 6? If it is a straight 6, by vote would be for a Skyline, but if it is a V, then a Supra with a custom hood? Just guessing, but what an awesome clip!
) I was just going off the look of the car and it's handling 
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Re: What car is this? (00R101)
It surely sounds supercharged to me.
And it's a small car... very light... it's way too twitchy to have a lot of mass... I'm thinking maybe a Lotus?
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Re: What car is this? (Willard)
Lotus?
Porsche?
Supra?
..um...haven't yall ever heard what a racing 6cylinder BMW sounds like!...well now you have....
P.S. - Don't yall ever crank up stereo system when the BMW racing commercials run on Speedvision (now Speed Channel in a few days...
) and adjust the bass and treble levels to listen to it with headphones on... 
...yes, I'm weird...lol
[Modified by Vracer111, 10:59 AM 2/7/2002]
Porsche?
Supra?
..um...haven't yall ever heard what a racing 6cylinder BMW sounds like!...well now you have....
P.S. - Don't yall ever crank up stereo system when the BMW racing commercials run on Speedvision (now Speed Channel in a few days...
) and adjust the bass and treble levels to listen to it with headphones on... ...yes, I'm weird...lol[Modified by Vracer111, 10:59 AM 2/7/2002]
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Re: What car is this? (Vracer111)
Ok, let's see. We have:
N/A
Whiny gear box
Funky hood
BMW engine
light and twitchy...
MacLaren F1?
Would they sell it with a whiny gear box?
N/A
Whiny gear box
Funky hood
BMW engine
light and twitchy...
MacLaren F1?
Would they sell it with a whiny gear box?
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Re: What car is this? (maxQ)
personally it sounds like it's got some sort of FI. Mercede's hoods aren't that square, i think It's closer to a BMW then mercedes and mercedes i thought had V8's not v6's...at least that's what I've seen.
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Re: What car is this? (maxQ)
Ok, let's see. We have:
N/A
Whiny gear box
Funky hood
BMW engine
light and twitchy...
MacLaren F1?
Would they sell it with a whiny gear box?
N/A
Whiny gear box
Funky hood
BMW engine
light and twitchy...
MacLaren F1?
Would they sell it with a whiny gear box?
BMW doesn't sell the cars - you buy an M3 and prepare it to race (strip it out, put in a straight-cut racing transmission, etc....) You could probably buy a used one for $50,000 - $100,000 or so...
P.S. The six-cylinder engine in both BMW's and Porsche's are inline. The inline 6 engines have a nice distinctive sound to them....and there is a difference in sound between a Porsche I6 and a BMW I6.
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Re: What car is this? (Vracer111)
If the car is not a racing BMW 3 series, then I have no idea why it sounds and looks (stock looking BMW racing hood - call the M3 hood funky if you like...) exactly like a racing 3 series BMW....
BMW doesn't sell the cars - you buy an M3 and prepare it to race (strip it out, put in a straight-cut racing transmission, etc....) You could probably buy a used one for $50,000 - $100,000 or so...
P.S. The six-cylinder engine in both BMW's and Porsche's are inline. The inline 6 engines have a nice distinctive sound to them....and there is a difference in sound between a Porsche I6 and a BMW I6.
BMW doesn't sell the cars - you buy an M3 and prepare it to race (strip it out, put in a straight-cut racing transmission, etc....) You could probably buy a used one for $50,000 - $100,000 or so...
P.S. The six-cylinder engine in both BMW's and Porsche's are inline. The inline 6 engines have a nice distinctive sound to them....and there is a difference in sound between a Porsche I6 and a BMW I6.
BTW, Porsche engines are NOT inline. They're flat 6s.
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Re: What car is this? (maxQ)
A flat six for Porsche, yeah... that is what I meant to say After all, how the heck could you cram an I6 in the back of a Porsche...duhhhh! 
...Well I probably should have said the were non- V configuration - man all this engine stuff is confusing... There are I, flat, V, W, and rotary configurations...any other configurations I left-out?
urbanlegend21...please post the reply to the email whenever you get it, that way I will have proof that it is indeed an M3....
Now,as to whether it's a BMW GT3 or GTR......lol
[Modified by Vracer111, 1:05 PM 2/7/2002]
After all, how the heck could you cram an I6 in the back of a Porsche...duhhhh! ...Well I probably should have said the were non- V configuration - man all this engine stuff is confusing... There are I, flat, V, W, and rotary configurations...any other configurations I left-out?urbanlegend21...please post the reply to the email whenever you get it, that way I will have proof that it is indeed an M3....
Now,as to whether it's a BMW GT3 or GTR......lol
[Modified by Vracer111, 1:05 PM 2/7/2002]
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Re: What car is this? (Vracer111)
There are I, flat, V, W, and rotary configurations...any other configurations I left-out?
Now,as to whether it's a BMW GT3 or GTR......lol
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Re: What car is this? (maxQ)
Sounds like a normally aspirated Japanese 4 banger to me. I think German 4s and any I6 sound a bit meaner. My guess is a silly fast MR2 Spyder, but I suck. I also thought I heard hints of a sequential transmission, but I can't hear it too well here at work.