Nick, what are your thoughts on the 335d M sports, i'm thining about purchasing one later in the year?
, i understand why someone would rather have an S3...Lets be honest it has a better image and is less pretentious!
I don't agree.
Image is the biggest reason I wouldn't have an S3, no matter how good a car it is.
It's just my opinion, so let's not get pages of debate about it, but if I see an S3, I think "wide boy".
I wouldn't think the same of a 335D driver.
I'd love one of them, but the cost and tax is too high.
Come on mate, the S3 isn't a wide boy car! It is definitely a young guys car though,
Well, IMO, there's only one reason to buy an S3/Evo/Subaru.
Because they offer the most performance for the least money.
You could get comfier/more practical/bigger cars with slightly less performance for the money, but you've chosen performance as your No.1 priority.
I think that's wide boy behaviour, sorry.
It's only my opinion though.
'Chillax', as I believe the 'yoots' say.
But I didn't I got an S3 because it's a nice looking, classy, all rounder. Something a little bit more special than your average family hatch, but by no means a proper performance car.
But I didn't I got an S3 because it's a nice looking, classy, all rounder. Something a little bit more special than your average family hatch, but by no means a proper performance car.
You probably bought the S3 because you had the power of choice, not told what to buy, which fuel to put in, in which tax bracket to look etc etc, unlike some other poor angry sods round here
Why ????
Mark
Well, young at heart at least!
Hmm, think lines are getting a little blurred here. Bowfer, you have to admit that the S3 does carry more class than a scooby or evo surely?
Do we class an RS4 in the same bracket as an Evo? Both performance based saloons.
I can see why people consider the S3 classier than a Subaru or Evo, but I think it's marginal, at best.
I wouldn't class an RS4 in the same bracket as an Evo, because they're polls apart in price.
S3/Subaru/Evo are all high £20K cars, usually owned by younger men, hence the comparison.
FWIW, I don't have a high opinion of RS4's either.
I admit it's daft, but my experience of them is tainted by a right twit who drives one past my house all the time.
Windows down, stereo blaring, sunglasses on, using the gaps between the speed bumps as acceleration/braking tests, sounding like an ME109 in the process.
He also has some lowered silver 911 thing with a roll cage, but at least he has to slow down for the speed humps in that.
Shallow as it may seem, it really only takes one example like that to put me clean off a car...
Are there any performance cars you do like / would / have owned?
Just for the record....I think the S3 in black, silver or grey is the only hot hatch a more 'mature' man can get away with.
Bowfer i have to admit i agree with most of what you're saying. And now comes the controversial statement which is going to cause a VERY angry backlash....
I think a lot of the w**kers who used to have or aspire to own BMW M cars have crossed over to Audi seeing as S and RS models are now flavour of the month.
I actually consider the new M3 a classier, more understated car than any RS model. Audi used to specialise in understated performance cars and you had to know what you were looking for in order to spot one.... Full chrome grills and shiny wing mirrors soon put an end to that.
Don't get me wrong i love Audi's but as a brand maybe becoming a little tarnished and attracting the same calibre of people who gave BMW a bad name.
Cue angry mob....
Paul.
Ive seen a lot of E46's being driven by chavs lately, with pimped up chrome stuff on it.. Ruined that car for me.
Am I mad?
Just for the record....I think the S3 in black, silver or grey is the only hot hatch a more 'mature' man can get away with.
Only in so much as Audi don't fit the s-tronic to the S3 iirc.