Loaded. Target:7 min 20 secs.

Here is a video from the "LOADED" project. This Swedish team's goal is to make a "road legal" (somewhere) e46 M3 CSL do a sub 7:20 lap of the Nürburgring, naturally this involves a massive diet and huge infusion of forced inducted power. Our friend Ed Healey is keeping us up to date from Germany but you can also follow on the Loaded web site, where you can also find a list of modifications.... enjoy

p.s. for reference...this IS a new record, as you can see in the table below, this BMW CSL, pretty much destroyed the lighter more powerful competition!

7.22 BMW M3 CSL Loaded
7.28 Pagani Zonda F
7.28 Porsche Carrera GT
7.32 Porsche 911 GT2
7.32 Gemballa Porsche GTR
7.34 Koenigsegg CCR
7.38 Nissan GT-R
7.39 Porsche 911 GT3 997
7.40 Porsche 911 Turbo 997
7.40 Mercedes SLR McLaren
7.40 Bugatti Veyron
7.42 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
7.42 Ford GT
7.43 Lamborghini Murcielago

New M3 not good enough for "the internets"!

Below is the first intelligent sum up of the new 2008 M3 I have seen, courtesy of Autocar.

Unbelievable is the amount of belly aching and whining I have been reading about this new car on message boards:
"First E92M3 test figures, dissapointing..."writes one noted poster complaining that one magazine clocked the M3 at a measly 4.4 sec 0-60.

Never mind that the quoted article goes on to say that "The surface wasn’t ideal, however, and we expect even better numbers once we get one to our usual test track." A good example of why reading internet message boards can make you stupid.

Lots of opinion seems to be given without any hard data....we like data.

Anyway, for some reasonable, intelligent opinion...

Extreme Eau Rouge Fetish: are you flat?

Jebbe StraightOn at JustGoFaster is setting the bar high with this mega video from their track day at Spa last month. They might be envious of our cheap gas but I'm sure jealous of the beautiful tracks they get to play on...Eau Rouge...hmmmm, tasty.

Please note the quick M5 wagon...and the slooooow Skylines accompanied by some choice comments.

OK, StraighOn....if that is your real name, the gauntlet is thrown. We are at Watkins Glen today and tomorrow, Summit Point Saturday and Sunday, we'll see what we can come up with.

(StraightOn from JGF with the gray M3CSL above says the M5 Wagon was driven by Nigel Mansell and his sons....how cool is that?)


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