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citação:Originalmente colocada por Miguel Melo de Carvalho

Depende. Podia ser voluntário e ter sido uma prenda do pai...
Bem visto;)[8]

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Se fosse outro, porventura um Twingo ou um Ka, não tinha morrido, porque não se tinha espetado a essa velocidade...
Também é verdade! Mas o que realmente me faz duvidar da história é o facto de eu ter visto as fotos quando o carro ainda não tinha sido lançado.
 
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QUENTES E BOAS SOBRE O M3CSL

Driving along a German autobahn, there's an easy way to spot if a BMW M3 CSL driver doesn't have a racing licence. They will only be doing 155mph.

While the ultimate 3-Series has the top speed restricted electronically, the firm will remove it if you can prove you have track experience. Without this electronic nanny, the CSL will top 170mph.
Built to try to provide the kind of motorsport-honed thrills offered by the original M3, the CSL has been stripped of unnecessary kit, the body panels replaced by plastic items and the engine tweaked to give an additional 17bhp.

The 19-inch alloys wear massive Michelin Pilot Sport tyres, which are half way between road and race rubber. Each car actually comes with a warning, telling the driver to take extra care in the rain because the Pilot Sport is designed primarily for dry use.

But with fine weather and a track at our disposal, the M3 was in its element. Climb into the bucket seats, grab the suede steering wheel and slam the carbon-panelled door, and the CSL already seems special. Start the engine and the race feel is complete - it burbles like a touring car sitting in the pits.

Flick the stubby gearlever to the right and the SMG sequential gearbox defaults in auto mode. The first touch of the paddles behind the steering wheel gives the driver control of the changes, though, and the M3 leaps forward. Slot into second, floor the throttle and the engine howls as the special filter housing squeezes air in and a modified exhaust pushes gases out urgently.

But it gets better still. At 6,500rpm, the six-cylinder unit switches
to gain an even wilder sound and more performance. Peak power isn't actually achieved until 7,900rpm, a level which would see the majority of engines explode.

In corners, the power, stiff ride and race-car stance mean it's easy to be intimidated by the CSL</u>, but all the usual stability control systems are here, plus a new gadget which allows you to play with the handling in relative safety. Called Track Mode, this device will let the BMW slide, but if it all looks like going wrong, the car's electronics do their best to sort it out.

It's just as well because, on the limit, the CSL is tricky to control. The rear end breaks away quickly and, although the faster-geared steering helps you catch the slide, the lack of feedback means you don't know what's going on between tyres and tarmac. With all that grip and power, the limit tends to arrive at higher speeds than you'd intend, too</u>. Perhaps this car is best left to race drivers after all.

As fotos estão lá mas não tenho software para reduzir o tamanho dos ficheiros
BY Tom Barnard IN WW.EVO.CO.UK
 
citação:Originalmente colocada por viking-forever1

citação:Originalmente colocada por ppais

essa traduçao foi do altavista n foi? n é muito clara mas pelo q se percebe era um bombeiro q ia a conduzir... mas algum bombeiro de 20 anos tem um serie 5? ah pois.. alemanha! lol

sim,trata-se de uma tradução do alta vista,isto porque eu não sei alemão,de qualquer forma aqui fica o site das imagens e do texto:

http://www.fotoherkner.de/Feuerwehr 2003/2. Quartal/04.05.03/04.05.03.htm

Nao nao... eu tambem n pesco nada de alemao... mas como a traduçao estava um bocado estranha. Mas é melhor q nada.
 
" Driving E60 530i Sport - Let me give you nice folks a little back ground. I work for BMW, JMK BMW to be more precise. I pride myself in product knowledge, and I am a car nut. I own a heavily modded E39 M5 and a 2003 Z4 3.0 sport, I love to drive

Now the goods.Everytime BMW comes out with a new product, they send us to learn at a ride and drive,a form of 2 day class for us to pick apart the competition and learn about our new cars and technology.

All I can say is the 530i sport is AWSOME
I say sport because you can only get the active steering and anti roll stabilization with the sport.It's not to say that the non sport isn't awsome because it's still better than the Jag S-Type, the Lexus GS 300, the M.B. E320 with sport and anything else you wanna throw at it.

I consider myself a good, above average, driver but when Mark, the head professional driver took me for a hot lap in a sport pkg car, I was scared

The things this car does dify the laws of physics. I found myself bracing for impact a couple of times because I saw no way this car traveling at 80 MPH would turn into this one turn done maybe at 45 MPH. But the car turned! And turned in with little fuss. The active roll stabilization is an awsome feature. It dials out 80% of the body roll in the car. And for that matter, the dive and pitch of the car as well.The way BMW explained it to me was that they didn't dial out 80% of the roll, they left 20% in. They could have dialed out 100% but then you would have people sailing off into the wild blue yonder off of turns because they wouldn't be able to see where the limits of the car were. In other words they left some body roll so that the driver has some ques as to where the horizon of the hood is in relation to the road, that way they can see the car leaning and they would back off the speed. I was told to look for 90-95% of body roll gone in the new M5

Let me give you a little on active steering and we'll call it a day. The active steering will vary the gearing of the rack between 10:1, 14:1, and 18:1.

At 1-45 MPH the gearing is quicker at 10:1 so that the car steers quicker. At 45-75 MPH it's at the standard BMW ratio of 14:1. At speeds over 75MPH it's a bus like 18:1.
Now, the active portion of this was demonstrated as follows.Say you're in the left lane doing 80MPH and you're about to pass a truck in the center lane. The wind pulse generated is enough to blow you off line. The active steering will keep the car straight with minute adjustments to the steering.It's imperceptable. Also, all roads are crowned for water run-off purposes. Well, when you have a car with very wide tires, or not so wide, a car has the tendancy to pull when riding on the right side.The active steering will keep the car going strait. Now, all this is fun but there's one rule. The steering wheel has to be at 0 degrees,i.e pointed strait.1 degree off center and it doesn't work. So for the skeptics, it's not going to steer for you.

Anyway, look for the Speed Channel's review of the car Sept. 12th.Speed Channel's test drive does a good evaluation of the cars they drive.

I highly recommend all of you drive one when they hit the retail centers.And enjoy"

in http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=0e8772934017044c653e3d980acf3556&threadid=34520

depois de algumas criticas ao sistema de direcção, acho que quem já teve um BMW serie5 experimenta e convence-se que o "SER" BMW está todo lá. Cada vez dá mais vontade...
 
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