Traction Inc.

Replacing blown struts - the night before a track day.  
Business as usual.

definemotorsports:

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swissstash:

Why is the 4 series called a Coupe? I thought the point of it was to differentiate it from the now four door 3 series. It should be the other way round, the original 3 had two doors. 

gearheadsandmonkeywrenches:

F**k the 4 series grand coupe on principle, even if it is beautiful. There’s nothing wrong with a 3 series coupe. Stop making things complicated.

A Brief History (in Quotes) of the Venerable BMW 3 Series //M:

1987 E30 M3—“Wow this car is fantastic, a homologated racing machine I can buy from my local dealer!”

1995 E36 M3—“It’s lost some finesse, but it pulls much harder now and has so much grip!”

2001 E46 M3—“So, so fast! And look how nice the interior is!”

2007 E92 M3—“So much style, so much technology! My golf buddies are so jealous!”

2014 FU M4—“Can you believe BMW used to race these cars? Who would tear up such a plush, luxurious automobile?”

New milestone for my dirty grrl

“I think that the E46 M3 will be remembered as one of the great performance cars. Of the top 50 performance cars of the past 50 years, the E46 may be the most complete package of all.”

“I think that the move toward technology in cars is going to mean that cars having celebrated not having technology in the past will become more collectable… I think that an M3 with a manual gearbox will be worth twice an SMG car.”

— Chris Harris, Is Technology Making Cars Worse?

Countdown to the Petit LeMans

Special thanks to United BMW and 2011 champions BMW Team RLL for a great pre-Petit event tonight.  Mingling with the crowd I ran into three of my old 24 Hours of LeMons teammates and even a certain Mike Burroughs with his StanceWorks E9.  This is shaping up to be an awesome week.

Vicki Butler-Henderson gushes over the new BMW M3 GTS
If your girl doesn’t understand why you love to drive, show her this :p

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Cars that keep me skimming the classifieds:
BMW M3 (E46), from $12,000

With 333 horsepower on tap, the third-generation BMW M3 made 104 hp/liter on the way to an 8000 rpm redline. Though larger, heavier and more refined than its predecessors, the E46 M3 was much faster—hitting 60 mph in under five seconds and running the quarter mile in the low 13’s.  An exceptionally comfortable and capable street car, it is just as at home smoking its brakes and tires around a race track.  While not cheap to maintain or insure, this is one hell of a car for the money.  (Photo Tom Daem, via motoriginal)

December is here in force, bringing freezing tempertures with it.  My turbo Miata went into the garage a few weeks ago - my winter beater is an old BMW M3.

Every time I start daydreaming too much about a new car, my wife reminds me that I’ve got it pretty good already… then I remind her that both of my cars together cost us 2/3 of what hers did ;)

Autocross
“Often seen as an entry level motorsports racing event. However, the race is between drivers of street cars and a clock, and as anyone that has done this before knows, the clock always wins.” — Uncyclopedia

“The ALMS M3 is perfection – everything is right on target. It has the perfect balance of power, braking and handling. Everything just feels in perfect proportion. It’s almost like they made a work of art and then decided to turn it into a race car. You just want so badly to do a good job and do what the car is capable of.”
— BMW factory driver Bill Auberlen (via motomania)