Congrats to Daz on joining the throng...
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...I share his view that it's going to be a burgeoning one!
Our glorious mentor, The Overlord of Wessex has finally done the decent thing and secured himself an insanely prime slab of choicest, Bavarian beef.
An E39 M5, now unrequired since it's owner has just moved on to the even dizzier heights of those chiselled, rortier, E60 thrills.
Daz gave me a brief overview of his first impressions and for one accustomed to the overwhelming sense of global rule that is otherwise the indominatable 996tt experience, he was nevertheless hugely impressed.
Of course, Herr Daz has yet to experince 'the 5th gear shuffle' but there's always tonight, chief! ;)
His contention is that many PHers may and probably should have a look at this thing: it is [i]ridiculously[/i] cheap and the excuses for non-ownership get thinner by the day, even for those who might otherwise eschew the hated marque of the blue and white propellor and all it's admittedly dubious, harsh but fair, character associations...
Welcome, brother: your annexing ability is now complete. :clap:
Our glorious mentor, The Overlord of Wessex has finally done the decent thing and secured himself an insanely prime slab of choicest, Bavarian beef.
An E39 M5, now unrequired since it's owner has just moved on to the even dizzier heights of those chiselled, rortier, E60 thrills.
Daz gave me a brief overview of his first impressions and for one accustomed to the overwhelming sense of global rule that is otherwise the indominatable 996tt experience, he was nevertheless hugely impressed.
Of course, Herr Daz has yet to experince 'the 5th gear shuffle' but there's always tonight, chief! ;)
His contention is that many PHers may and probably should have a look at this thing: it is [i]ridiculously[/i] cheap and the excuses for non-ownership get thinner by the day, even for those who might otherwise eschew the hated marque of the blue and white propellor and all it's admittedly dubious, harsh but fair, character associations...
Welcome, brother: your annexing ability is now complete. :clap:
Thanks mate.
I've been keeping my eye on these cars since I first saw the Ring Taxi being driven on track.
I'm now the very happy owner of an MFunf and can confirm they are absolutely superb. My first hour of driving it on saturday afternoon was marred by bad traffic, numpty scum and the bad rain. I can say though that like the porsche 3rd and 4th gear are a lot of fun accellerating briefly from 69mph up to the hallowed heights of red linism.......
First impressions were that everything on the car is well put together, no rattles and has good compliant road orientated suspension, rather than rockhard track based setup you sometimes find on sports saloons. The only thing that took some getting used to was the gearbox. Which at slow speeds seemed notchy requiring patience in between cogs 1 and 2, in particular not forcing the gears in, but letting the synchro do it's thing. Having said that, at higher speeds the gearbox flies between cogs.
Now the bad news.
When making progress past queues of slow drivers, pootling behind horse boxes and sunday driving micras, there is a critical mass of numpty scum that don't like you jumping up the queue one or two cars at a time. I've not experienced this sort of crap in the porsche when making progress, I can only assume people accept/expect sportscars making progress, but if a saloon car driver does the same they think he must be some sort of grandchild murdering terrorist. In fact there are swarms of these people who appear to have totally forgotton how to overtake and object to those that can do, sdoing so. They will do anything to obstruct your reasonable progress, including shutting gaps and when you have safely done the deed they put their headlights on full beam behind you.
Needless to say with dross like that ruining my drive home on sunday morning I adapted my driving style to that of the bruciebabe BMW driving stereotype. Any numpties reading this, be warned, you started it not me. To be continued.....
DAZ
I've been keeping my eye on these cars since I first saw the Ring Taxi being driven on track.
I'm now the very happy owner of an MFunf and can confirm they are absolutely superb. My first hour of driving it on saturday afternoon was marred by bad traffic, numpty scum and the bad rain. I can say though that like the porsche 3rd and 4th gear are a lot of fun accellerating briefly from 69mph up to the hallowed heights of red linism.......
First impressions were that everything on the car is well put together, no rattles and has good compliant road orientated suspension, rather than rockhard track based setup you sometimes find on sports saloons. The only thing that took some getting used to was the gearbox. Which at slow speeds seemed notchy requiring patience in between cogs 1 and 2, in particular not forcing the gears in, but letting the synchro do it's thing. Having said that, at higher speeds the gearbox flies between cogs.
Now the bad news.
When making progress past queues of slow drivers, pootling behind horse boxes and sunday driving micras, there is a critical mass of numpty scum that don't like you jumping up the queue one or two cars at a time. I've not experienced this sort of crap in the porsche when making progress, I can only assume people accept/expect sportscars making progress, but if a saloon car driver does the same they think he must be some sort of grandchild murdering terrorist. In fact there are swarms of these people who appear to have totally forgotton how to overtake and object to those that can do, sdoing so. They will do anything to obstruct your reasonable progress, including shutting gaps and when you have safely done the deed they put their headlights on full beam behind you.
Needless to say with dross like that ruining my drive home on sunday morning I adapted my driving style to that of the bruciebabe BMW driving stereotype. Any numpties reading this, be warned, you started it not me. To be continued.....
DAZ
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