. Car – 2008 Mazdaspeed3 Mazdaspeed CAI Dunlop Z1 Star Specs RX8 Wheels Koni FSDs Stock everything else! Memorial Day Weekend driving on Calaveras Road in Northern California… BMW 335i pulls out in front and was driving enthusiastically down this sweet road. I decided to join in and thought we were having a great time until I get a nice little brake check. Once we got to a complete stop the BMW driver got out and had some nice and wonderful things to say. The driving part is somewhat boring. We didn’t even make it to the twisty bits yet. The commentary on the other hand… thats exciting! I’m still not sure why he was so angry… 1.) I gave him plenty of room and was not tailgating him… 2.) I figure if he didn’t want to drive quickly down the road, he wouldn’t have driven quickly to begin with. (Even then, we weren’t even going that fast…) 3.) If he just wanted me to go around, he would have pulled off and let me pass? 4.) Maybe he was upset that his BMW couldn’t pull away from a ‘little shitbox’? 5) Perhaps Bad BBQ bean for Memorial Day? 6.) Standard behavior from a BMW owner? (Haha, I’m kidding! I love Bimmers!) No hard feelings my friend… that BMW is a sweet ride!
www.edmunds.com Before you start sending us flaming e-mails complaining that a comparison between the 2008 Audi S5 and the 2008 BMW M3 Coupe is an obvious mismatch from the get-go, you should know a few things. Our first full test of the 000, all-wheel-drive 2008 Audi S5 was a bit of a revelation. With a 354-horsepower version of Audi’s direct-injection 4.2-liter V8 under its hood, the voluptuous Audi S5 ran a 13.3-second quarter-mile at 104 mph, just 0.1 second and 2 mph shy of the 420-hp 2007 Audi RS4 sedan. What’s more, the S5′s slalom speed is within a couple mph of the harsh-riding RS-spec sedan. “It ran a 13.3? With that kind of speed, who needs a 000 RS4?” we asked ourselves. We believe so strongly in the 2008 Audi S5 that it earned our Inside Line’s inaugural Editors’ Choice Award. So we acquired (hastily perhaps) another 2008 Audi S5 and set it against the new 2008 BMW M3 Coupe, a car now fortified with V8 power for the first time. Speed-reading the specifications sheets of these two cars, they seem like natural rivals: the 354-hp, all-wheel-drive 2008 Audi S5 measured against the 414-hp, rear-wheel-drive 2008 BMW M3. But as it turns out, we gave the 2008 Audi S5 a bigger challenge than we had initially intended.