Saturday, drove my daughter-in -law's new car. Her's is all black and is much more impressive looking than the pictures here. It is very fast! 5L, 500 HP(not sure how they measure it to get that), V10, 6 speed standard. I was at 100 in second gear and it has 6 gears. A lot of fun to drive till I learned the price tag. I can think of other cars I would want if I were going to spend over $100,000 for a car. It is pretty neat though when you think of a 41 year old woman wanting to shift the gears on a 6 speed standard in downtown Houston.
http://www.bmwusa.com/Vehicles/M/M6Coupe/

 

I love those! If I had more money than sense I would have a black one!

 

I was impressed with the good looking wheels and the brakes. 19" wheels and huge rotors, front and rear.

 

I tooled around in the 650, the next step below the M. Fun car for putzing around. I love bimmers. Super pumped for the debut of the 135i next year.

Did you have the 'power' button in the right mode? By default the engine only lays down 400HP, the magical button gets you the extra 100HP when needed.

 

I can just see super tall D getting into that tiny wagon-ish thing. That would be funny.

 

It was on. I hit the rev limiter pretty quickly, at least before I was expecting it. The thing will really rocket. I was a little surprised by the carbon fiber roof. Looked ok on the black car, not sure how it would look on other colors.

 

No hatchback for the states, its coming over as a coupe. And seeing as how its based on the E46 (which I could drive comfortably) I have high hopes for it.

 

I say get the Mini- S. You'd fit and the sight of you getting out of it each day would be priceless.

 

I don't fit. I was really bummed.

 

Fess up though, it wasn't the height that got you, it was the gut hanging over the steering wheel.

 

x2 on the MINI Cooper S.

And I'm 6'-2"+....

 

You're a midget compared to Dzervit.

 

Sorry to nitpick, but last time I checked the M6 has a 7 speed sequential gearbox (SMGIII for BMW). Shifts happen in 0.04 seconds, less than a tenth.... I've been in a M5 (same engine, tranny) and raced one with my L too.... fast cars for sure!

 

It may be a 7 speed, all I saw on the shifter were 6, and that was as far as I got shifting it.

 

X3 on the Mini Cooper. The width is probally what got Dzervit, not the height.