F30 BMW 320d Sport

[Welly]

Did it have that optional lights pack?

You know the one, it gives you little flashing orange lights at the corners of the car, so people on roundabouts know which exit you're taking

That's called the Directional Indicatory Correction Kit, or DICK for short

[steve_earwig]

Nice

BMW drivers - "I never give any clues"
Mercedes "I give way to nothing, ever.

"Directional Indication Correction Kit - Human Electronic Advisory Display"

[scotty73]

"Directional Indication Correction Kit - Human Electronic Advisory Display"

Should forward that to James May.

[CountryPug]

whats them v6's sound like when they are revved? the diesel v8 range rovers still give off a nice v8 burble

On full chat is does sound pretty damn awesome FarmerPug, attracts lots of attention lol

[Doggy]

"Directional Indication Correction Kit - Human Electronic Advisory Display"

I used to refer to 'Richard' or 'Mr Head' when the kids were younger, thinking they wouldn't catch on.....

Took my lad to the Le Mans 24h about 10 years ago. Shortly after joing the A16 south he said, 'remember this is France, Dad - so it's "Ricard" or "M. le Tete"'.

Did it have that optional lights pack?

You know the one, it gives you little flashing orange lights at the corners of the car, so people on roundabouts know which exit you're taking

Speaking of which, anyone else nearly collected one of those daft E60 5-series monstrosities, where the f...ing stupid sidelights look orange and you think the l/hand indicators on?

[grasmere59]

It will spend most of it's life in the outside lane of the M4.

Yeah, about an inch from the bumper of the car in front

I was thinking the same thing

Is it a german car mindset? To constantly have on your mind "my outside lane my outside lane my outside lane my outside lane my outside lane my outside lane my outside lane my outside lane my outside lane..."?

Did it have that optional lights pack?

You know the one, it gives you little flashing orange lights at the corners of the car, so people on roundabouts know which exit you're taking

Oh,thats what those orange things are on the corners of my bmw,it's not "my outside lane" it's "my motorway"

[highlander]

Beamer drivers and Audi drivers (sweeping generalizations abound!) are all very well and good, what I can't stand nowadays are the slack-jawed knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers that f*ck about incessantly acting like the complete and utter dick-heads that they are in their Vauxhall <name here> VXRs.

If it is a Vauxhall, and it has a VXR badge on it, regardless whether it is an Astra VXR or a Corsa VXR, I will guarantee you it is being driven by a first-class front-bottom. I've been cut off in some hideously dangerous manner by these amoeba-brained morons more times than I care to remember. On Sunday I was out with the Wifely Person and I'd just parked up in a multi-storey garage, and we were about to cross the road when some total nobber in his (invariably) white-with-black-alloys Corsa VXR comes past at f*ck-knows-how-fast, tyres squealing and him revving the nuts off the engine. What a f*ck-wit.

Seriously, what is it about the VXR badge that attracts the kind of buyer who thinks having a massive collection of ASBOs and a security tag round his ankle is something to be proud of and even encouraged? I'm all for having sporty cars, but having sporty cars cheaply available to complete and utter fuckwits is something I think we need to address as a nation.

[Welly]

I agree, it's like; "Hey everyone look at me, I've got enough money to get a VXR and I'm sure as hell going to use every last BHP to exit this slip road from Primark"

I can't say you get the same class of meat-heads in high performance Fords though like the Focus RS, they seem a bit more 'enthusiast' rather than 'wear it round your neck' kinda people.

What is worse though is when these tired old ragged-to-death VXR's fall into the sub £3K market....THEN you'll see the worst kind of driver imaginable....the 'wannabe'

[sirwiggum]

I remember the day I drove a Vectra VXR.

As it wasn't my car I drove it quite sensibly.

However, at the traffic lights leading onto an empty NSL dual carraigeway, I got mr Audi beside me starting to inch forward.

We can't have that, can we?

So sport button on, hold it until the green light, then it just took off, 300 odd horsepower in a Vectra
Left mr A4 TDi for dust!

That was the only time I was an eejit in a VXR

[Welly]

I believe VOSA are offering Post-VXR counselling sessions for 'normal' humans who have to drive such a model during the course of their work or whatever.....helps them to come to terms with what they've done and begin the process of forgiveness

[rwb]

This is the BMW 184, right?
Just how much stronger is it than the 2.0 HDi 136? viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13613#p167849
Not as much as those numbers imply -- certainly not below 2500RPM.
So in order to achieve that 0--60 time, you must have to rev it round to 4,000 RPM before changing.

[OdinEidolon]

You complain there are too many idiots on the road? You, from UK, the country of the gentlemen?

I live in Italy, which is the country of... well I do not know of what but definitely if you do not step first noone will stop at the zebra cross to let you pass... let alone use indicators and such. I live in a small city but have to stay in a lager one because of university... lucky me I don't have to use the car here or I'd become mad in 10 seconds time. Everyone stops where they want with no indicators, horns on continuosly, the few parking places are a battle to park in, no single car is unmarked...

You are lucky. Here it is much worse!

[Doggy]

This is the BMW 184, right?
Just how much stronger is it than the 2.0 HDi 136? viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13613#p167849
Not as much as those numbers imply -- certainly not below 2500RPM.
So in order to achieve that 0--60 time, you must have to rev it round to 4,000 RPM before changing.

Not sure I agree. Current 320's are quick, HDi 170's are less so, while HDi 136's are much slower,
(according to a 'friend' who may have done some 'comaparative evaluation').

[sirwiggum]

You complain there are too many idiots on the road? You, from UK, the country of the gentlemen?

I live in Italy, which is the country of... well I do not know of what but definitely if you do not step first noone will stop at the zebra cross to let you pass... let alone use indicators and such. I live in a small city but have to stay in a lager one because of university... lucky me I don't have to use the car here or I'd become mad in 10 seconds time. Everyone stops where they want with no indicators, horns on continuosly, the few parking places are a battle to park in, no single car is unmarked...

You are lucky. Here it is much worse!

I remember getting sent by work to the Telecom Italia offices in Rome.

The taxi driver from the airport seemed to think his Chrysler Voyager was a racecar, autobahn speeds on the autostrada (and then swapped one of my notes for a €5 euro and diddled me out of €15 euro on arriving at the hotel)

Then the taxis to and from the office, a 2 lane dual carraigeway in theory, in practice it can host as many as 3-4 lanes of traffic.
I witnessed a motorist drive into the back of a police car (most police cars there were 159s ).
Parking was performed by shunting the car in front and behind.
And the green man at the traffic lights doesn't mean walk, it means "wait until traffic has stopped" as a bus nearly ran me over in the city centre!

[highlander]

You complain there are too many idiots on the road? You, from UK, the country of the gentlemen?!

Typically the standard of driving here is acceptable. This is what makes it so much more noticeable when you encounter a complete moron. It also makes me unbelievably angry at the cost of car insurance here - if everyone here is a careful, sensible driver by comparison to those in Italy, how come our car insurance premiums are so high? But that's a matter for another thread.

Also, because most people here drive to an acceptable level*, it makes the average person less equipped to deal with these morons when they do surface.

* = I see myself as a reasonably good driver - I've had precisely one at-fault accident (in my first week of driving, I came out at a T-junction on a miserably wet day, and gently bumped into the side of a passing Vectra, leaving a big scuff down the side of his door, requiring £800 worth of paintwork repairs. The front bumper on my Clio suffered a very slight scuff and required no repairs at all). Yet when some complete arse comes along and cuts me off without warning, it scares the sh*t out of me and the Wifely Person.