The YooToob thread

Diabhalta wrote: »

Like rear spoiler for example... on a fwd car... that is ridiculous.

Do you know what a "spoiler" does? Little lesson here:



Oh and spoilers of any kind on a road car driving at legal speeds are mostly useless regardless of what wheels are being driven.

I drive an E30 318is (LSD diff with worn friction plates atm.) and a 1979 Reliant Scimitar GTE (Essex engine... that is v6 3.0 litres of lovely rumble).

I always liked the Beemer E30's, especially the M3 examples. For me they are the M car and when I think of a BMW it's the E30 shape that springs first to mind. Showing my age I suppose. Haven't seen a Scimitar in yonks. Always made me think "hmmm so that's what a Capri shooting brake would look like". I don't say that as a bad thing BTW. I think the Scimitar was a lovely design, The Essex was a grand oul lump too. Didn't throw out much in the way of output(standard 130 Brake IIRC?), but was reliable. I seem to recall the queen of England drove one?

In my opinion fwd cars are shopping trolleys and nothing else. Golf GTI? Shopping trolley that goes fast.

The BMW E30 is a family saloon that goes fast. Well when I say fast... Even the M3 version would be seriously humbled by a Fiat 500 Abarth in the right hands and a Civic Type R(any of them, from 1997) would make it look like a peddle car. It's not even a proper coupe. A Germanic Ford Cortina after some work in the gym.

See what I did there? All nonsense on my part. The E30 was and remains a great car, one of the true motoring greats IMH. As was and is(mostly) the Golf Gti. It changed everything and humbled some far more expensive cars. As did the later Peugeot 205 Gti, a real giant killer in its day. That's before we get to kit like the Renault Clio Williams:



Or any number of others that would be a long list. Right back to the Lancia Fulvia, that was the giant killer in its day.

And well before we get to AWD stuff like Lancias, Audi, Subaru, Ford and so forth.

Andrewf20 wrote: »

A real sense of speed with this one, among the tons of autobahn youtube vids. Some guts to be hitting these mphs...

+1. That's some scaaaary shít. :eek:

Caliden wrote: »

Christ he's is on the limit there. Some close calls with the barrier

Helluva pilot that lad. The car seemed to be a bit of a handful at times, or is that just my inexpert eye as per usual?