nickdrivesm3
12-22-2005, 10:07 PM
I work at Cunningham BMW in El Cajon, and today one of Steve Dinan's buddies came in to show us the supercharged e46 M3. Complete DINAN package, brakes, suspension, etc, 3.91 diff and non intercooled supercharger. The guy is a professional racecar driver and took me and my coworker on a quick test drive....
Ok, we do a sliding burnout as were leaving the dealership and take it to 80+mph on EL Cajon BLVD (city streets @ 80, omfg) anyway we bust a U-turn and do another sliding burnout. We are approaching traffic to get onto the highway at about 100mph when he taps the brakes and the freakin car stopped on a dime. We casualy roll up to the stoplight to merge onto I-8N. Once the car moves infront of us, all he does is go WOT and before I knew it were doing 120+mph up the 8. He leaves it in 4th all the way and take the first exit. We cross the bridge and get back onto I-8 South. Were doing 100mph before we hit the highway and take it all the way back to EL Cajon BLVD. Keep in mind were still doing 100mph. As were coming into EL Cajon and this is where I fianlly get scared. (If you go to EL Cajon often, ya were doing 100 at the off ramp onto EL Cajon BLvd) Once again he just taps the brakes and this M3 comes to a hault. No panicing, no stressing. This guy was solid with the car and brought me and my worker back safely. He exchanged hand shakes and talked to everyone. We had the biggest smile on our faces all morning.
As far as the review goes, the car layed down 423hp and we experianced every bit of it. The M3 DINAN package (quoted @ 40,000$ installed for everything) is quite a step for the amount of performance you get. If I had the money I just might get one. But for BMW and DINAN, this car is fucking sick.
Ok, we do a sliding burnout as were leaving the dealership and take it to 80+mph on EL Cajon BLVD (city streets @ 80, omfg) anyway we bust a U-turn and do another sliding burnout. We are approaching traffic to get onto the highway at about 100mph when he taps the brakes and the freakin car stopped on a dime. We casualy roll up to the stoplight to merge onto I-8N. Once the car moves infront of us, all he does is go WOT and before I knew it were doing 120+mph up the 8. He leaves it in 4th all the way and take the first exit. We cross the bridge and get back onto I-8 South. Were doing 100mph before we hit the highway and take it all the way back to EL Cajon BLVD. Keep in mind were still doing 100mph. As were coming into EL Cajon and this is where I fianlly get scared. (If you go to EL Cajon often, ya were doing 100 at the off ramp onto EL Cajon BLvd) Once again he just taps the brakes and this M3 comes to a hault. No panicing, no stressing. This guy was solid with the car and brought me and my worker back safely. He exchanged hand shakes and talked to everyone. We had the biggest smile on our faces all morning.
As far as the review goes, the car layed down 423hp and we experianced every bit of it. The M3 DINAN package (quoted @ 40,000$ installed for everything) is quite a step for the amount of performance you get. If I had the money I just might get one. But for BMW and DINAN, this car is fucking sick.