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How 11 BMW M Cars (Past and Present) Compare at VIR
BIMMERPOST NEWS How 11 BMW M Cars (Past and Present) Compared in Lightning Laps at VIR Through the years, BMW has provided a total of 11 M cars to Car and Driver for its annual Lightning Lap competition at Virginia International Raceway. Notwithstanding size and weight increases throughout the years, lap times have dropped on newer models. Driving feel and enjoyment is of course harder to quantify and chart, however. |
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Clearly lap times have decreased over the years which is the same for most any track. Indeed, vehicles have gotten heavier and faster , particularly aided by multiple repaves of the circuit over time as well as the advancement of tire technology.
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Who's idea was it to squish all that data into ONE graph?? My brain was hurting trying to figure out what was what. I couldn't figure out how the Z4 was the fastest for a minute there.
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Woah... the M4 GTS is good! talk about outlier
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what a retarded ass graph
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How come M2 weighs less than M4 GTS?
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09-15-2016, 01:28 PM | #9 |
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Graphs have become bloated and heavy over the years.
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They sure don't make them like they used to
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From another Car and Drive article the M4 GTS is 43 pounds lighter than the M4 they weighed previously or 3538
http://www.caranddriver.com/flipbook...al-deep-dive#2 and the M2 in this C&D article weighs 3510 - http://www.caranddriver.com/bmw/m2
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Folks need to take this data with a grain of salt. VIR has been re-paved through the years, and the drivers who are clocking the laps are journalists, not professional drivers.
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It's a mess.
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My first thought after looking at the graph:
"Hmm.. what a strange ADVANCED graph... I must be terribly inexperienced with graphs" Then reads the comment. |
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