Sonic3v

Actually we can take an M3.

saud alzaabi

ohhh **** man ... i have no problem smoking z3's and z4's but a guy told my that the z3 M coupe is faster... ohh well i guess not bad for a mustang to beat those over priced underpowerd fancy pantsy german cars.... i mean the ones we beat like the z3's and z4's and cl500's and so on...

SpecterGT260

that was in 99, back then, it would have been a pretty even race. we overpowered and over torqued them, and they arent THAT light

BlackB-U-TEE_06

haha, well it seems like an 05/06 GT will either kick the crap out of a BMW z3 M3 OR the BMW will kick the crap out of my GT.

guess the only way to find out is to hit the gas next time i see one.

any other actual specs or experience with the BMWs is appreciated....i'd tend to believe actual numbers over "...a friend of a friend of a friend told me...."

Thanks for the HP and TQ numbers TikTok.

i will say this about the z3 that passed me up....the manner in which he passed me up, made me think he had something to prove....however, he really didn't pull away that fast (even though it looked like he was shifting pretty hard), which leads me to believe that i probably could have taken him and made him look the fool. only reason i didn't even try is because he already looked the fool when he almost hit the car to the right of him just to pass me up.

pcdrj

I'd like to think that a stock GT can take one. I 've never run a new M3 myself but have heard kill stories from both sides. M3 is rated at high 12's-low 13's with no mods and it's not really geared for drag. Older models are closer. Anyone here ever tangle with a new M3?

Sonic3v

https://mustangforums.com/m_981567/tm.htm

Claytone

Great news..... http://www.roadandtrack.com/article....article_id=913. We are doing greeeaaat.

Claytone

I spoke too soon. That last link was in ref. to 2003, this is the 2005. damnit, still close, for 20k cheaper. http://www.roadandtrack.com/article....&page_number=2

NoOriginalNamesLeft

I know a pretty fair amount about BMW's, my dad's been working for them ever since I was 6, before that it was Honda, so our company car was a good improvement. But anyways, unless you know what to look for, most Z3's look exactly the same. They started off with inline 4's in like 96, and later got the famous inline 6's. So you could have been against anything from a 1.9l, or a 3.2l. The M Z3 is actually called an M Roadster, and you would definately notice if that is what was racing you, it's got quad exhaust pipes, and a silver chrome strip through the front quarter panel vents. But if you're sure that it was a factory hardtop then it would have come with a 2.9l or 3.0l engine, so by no means slow, but not a V8 killer, unless you wanted to autocross.

pcdrj

TMG,

I've read that post before. If you notice the GT does have some mods.