Lol! We just traded my daughter's A4 for the 335. She likes the 335 way better of course. 300hp vs. 200, who wouldn't.

 

kid you not! Wasn't my observation, it came straight from the owners mouth... We were sharing a garage and I asked him why he kept coming in mid session, this was his explanation...

 

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Cool, she must be so excited A4 is a nice safe car too. The only issue was the Oil consumption which is much better now after the fixes and software upgrade.

 

We're clearly on different wavelengths! I'm not buying her the new M3 because it's a wife's car. I'm buying it for her because I don't need another car myself. Out of curiosity, if you define the M3 as a wife's car, what's my 1M? A girl's car? I can assure you that most of my friends with a lot faster cars (458s, 12C, GTR, 911s, Gran Tourismo) failed to stay close to its cartoonishly fat behind in our spirited drives (not races!) on the deserted mountain roads in Fujeirah, regardless of their excess HP.

I don't race on the roads, anywhere. Because it is boring as hell, especially in the straight line (where only the size of your wallet dictates who's fastest). Because it is not safe. Because I'm not 12, as Manifold correctly pointed out. And because there are far too many people here with truckloads more money than driving skills and I don't want them to crash them into me.

But IF I would, from experience I know that I don't need more HP to win. I would only need 2 or 3 challenging corners.

BTW, my Ferrari 458 Speciale is white. Just so I can avoid those races more easily...

 

Please allow me to respectfully distance myself from this stereotype, even though I realize that I'm grossly outnumbered in this town...

 

Granted driver skill is far more important than hp on the challenging twisties.

But since all of us are not blessed with the extreme driving skills you possess, we have to just make do with better acceleration times.

I can't comment on the 1M as it is a very limited production car that seems to get rave reviews. It is also manual trans. But I can say that if your exact clone were driving the 1M in Fujeirah and you were driving the 12C, 458 or even Gt3, the 1M would be doing the chasing for sure.

True there will always be fatter wallets out there. But I honestly commend you on getting a brand new GT3, 458S and M3 in the same calender year. Life is good.

 

Let me break it to you guys, there is no such thing as a stereotypical sports car owner in Dubai. With well over 150 nationalities in this cosmopolitan city, all from different walks of lives and completely different ways of thinking. The "locals" comprise not much more than 10% of the population. Some here prefer to drive their aventadors at 60 km/hr in a 100k zone while others launch their 911 to north of 250 km/hr on an open stretch of highway free of speed cameras. Others prefer to take their cars to the tracks or to mountain twisties and enjoy the g forces. A very diverse bunch of sports car owners here.

 

Your first name isnt Saeed is it?

 

Trust me, I don't have extreme driving skills. Far from it. Like most men on this planet, I would argue mine are "better than average". Which is statistically impossible, but let's not go there...

For sure, the 1M would be doing the chasing in that group. But its driver would have a blast doing so, with a even bigger smile on his face that the 12C's driver, I know from personal experience... and I expect the M3 to be very similar!

You don't need supersonic driving skills to enjoy the cars you mentioned above. But buying them to merely show off (which, percentage-wise, is sadly what the majority of owners use them for here) is an complete waste of money and capability, IMHO. But for this majority, it seems that's their way of enjoying the car. And who am I to judge that? We just live in different car (ownership) galaxies, I guess...

 

You have.

 

This thread is now a joke. Street race? Bigger wallets? Come on.

 

What is a M3/4 thread doing on a Gt3 forum in the first place. I second having this entire thread deleted.

 

TomTom77,your logical way of thinking and great taste in cars for the best driving experience is clearly not in line with Dubai's trend.
Whoever says the 1M or M3/M4 are not fun or they're a girl's car have no idea what they're talking about...

Enjoy a great set of cars!

 

I think there's nothing wrong with this tread. Well, the origin of it, that is.

The M3 and M4 will be, as always, proper and practical performance cars for the roads. Not for all tracks though, in all conditions. But go to the Nurburgring and what do you find there? Porsche and BMW, together probably about two-thirds of the cars on the track. And please ignore the cars that are left in the parking lot all day to, again, show off!

In most parts of the world, they are also in a completely different price bracket as compared to the GT3 and hence proper value-for-money! Less so here, sadly. I expect the new M3 to be around 80% of the GT3's base price here.

Oh, and available with a manual. Sadly my wife prefers the DCT (in traffic), even though she has driven manuals all here life and still does. I am quite tempted to make a 'mistake' in the ordering process and 'accidentally' end up with a manual... ;-)