Whatever it was it was Bimmer, and agressive. I found him alseep at the wheel and overtook him and the car dozing behind him. I think that must have upset his sensibilities somewhat as he woke up with a start and started to charge up behind me.

It was pretty much dark, but it looked quite menacing (in a good way) with the trademark BMW Xenon colour flicker when the angle betwen us changed, and dark blue metallic paint and some massive looking wheels filling the arches. Spotlessly clean too.

I wasn't looking to misbehave, but when you slow down for a 30mph speed limit and some BMW is trying to climb into the trunk, sometimes you just gotta try and put some manners on them, especially when there is no other traffic to get in the way.

The upshot is that despite whatever I may have said before, the RS 6 and M5 might be pretty well matched. He (she?) was able to mostly keep pace with me, sometimes dropping a little way back, sometimes catching a bit back up. Nice cornering as well, certainly on a par with me on a dry road.

We ran for about 10 miles or so, then he turned off the other way from me. He gave me a couple of (presumably friendly) quick flashes of the brights, and I gave him a well-intentioned left, right, left on the indicators.

Nice to have a friendly run, sort of like the Brits and Germans playing football in no-man's land on Christmas Day. That's what being a car enthusiast should be all about!

 

And I'd be having just as much fun reading them.

Thanks for the post!

P.S. My car is repaired; it goes faster now! Somehow, having the car without any dents, freshly washed and with a fresh oil change makes it faster...or me faster in it. Fun stuff.

 

Perodua Kenari!
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Of course a clean car is faster. If you wax it really, really well the air slips over it more easily and lowers the drag coefficient...

On the subject of your car, I know others have said this before, but that sig pic really is awesome - car looks fantastic and really stands out. Nice work!

Did you see this link "skiwi" posted over on A8 about short whgeel base and upcoming S8 and RS 8 possibilities?<ul><li><a href="http://www.autoweek.com/cat_content.mv?port_code=autoweek&amp;cat_code=car news&amp;loc_code=index&amp;content_code=04968668" >http://www.autoweek.com/cat_content.mv?port_code=autoweek&amp;cat_code=car news&amp;loc_code=index&amp;conten

 

HUGE news!! I'm gonna have to dump the POS S6 soon! I think my mailman reads my Autoweeks...

 

Interesting run makes for an interesting story. Thanks for the good read.

 

Thanks. Good story and very realistic. I'd still rather have an RS 6.

 

nice sig

 

Good story. Keep 'em coming.

 

Nice Great War analogy.