Having owned this 35i for not quite 2 weeks i have been trying to drive it as often as i could to understand the car and familiarise myself with the driving dynamics etc. After having owned the previous model for 8 years, i need to understand this car 
Today i had an opportunity to take the Z4 and not the X5 to my work location. I'm doing a 3 day event for Vauxhall providing my in-car camera systems to their press track cars (each jurno gets to take a recording of themselves at the wheel away with them on the day).
You might be asking "so what"..... and I don't blame you one bit!
Well the "so what" is this. The event is at Rockingham Motor Speedway in Northamptonshire, again "so what" I hear you exclaim!
Rockingham has 2 very long, very tall tunnels that access the pits and in-field area that you have to drive through.....
So, could i resist an empty, one way, and remote tunnel?............could I boll**ks.
Procedure:
1. stop
2. place car is sports plus
3. select 1st gear
4. mash the loud pedal in to the carpet
5. launch forward with a chirp from the tyres and get ready to pull 2nd gear.
6. get propelled through the tunnel ilke being fired from a large bore cannon!
7. listen to the NOISE....... it was EPIC and i don't say that lightly. It was a cacophony of sound, which got all the better when the 2nd gear bangs home with the resulting Whhaaarpp when the DCT does its thing from the exhaust.
I thought that my Miltek was a great exhaust, but this one is as good, if not better.
I DO remember why i bough this car, it just makes me SMILE with the noise it makes at full chat.
one very happy
Dario
Today i had an opportunity to take the Z4 and not the X5 to my work location. I'm doing a 3 day event for Vauxhall providing my in-car camera systems to their press track cars (each jurno gets to take a recording of themselves at the wheel away with them on the day).
You might be asking "so what"..... and I don't blame you one bit!
Well the "so what" is this. The event is at Rockingham Motor Speedway in Northamptonshire, again "so what" I hear you exclaim!
Rockingham has 2 very long, very tall tunnels that access the pits and in-field area that you have to drive through.....
So, could i resist an empty, one way, and remote tunnel?............could I boll**ks.
Procedure:
1. stop
2. place car is sports plus
3. select 1st gear
4. mash the loud pedal in to the carpet
5. launch forward with a chirp from the tyres and get ready to pull 2nd gear.
6. get propelled through the tunnel ilke being fired from a large bore cannon!
7. listen to the NOISE....... it was EPIC and i don't say that lightly. It was a cacophony of sound, which got all the better when the 2nd gear bangs home with the resulting Whhaaarpp when the DCT does its thing from the exhaust.
I thought that my Miltek was a great exhaust, but this one is as good, if not better.
I DO remember why i bough this car, it just makes me SMILE with the noise it makes at full chat.
one very happy
Dario
