I think they just put incredibly sticky tires on the M4 by default, a German magazine tested the e46 M3 CSL with 2 seconds slower then a this old V10 car that Lamborghini built.

My parents old e46 320d still does hit the advertised top speed with almost 320000km on the clock. It’s a bit less then this Porsches 240k miles, and a lot could go wrong in the next time, but it’s even on the first clutch and first turbo. Sometimes cars seem to hold themselves together exceptionally well.

I maybe wouldn’t swerve into oncoming traffic. I can’t say for sure, and maybe I would swerve if there would be no oncoming traffic visible.

Most people I’ve seen in stress situations in their cars seemed to go rather straight ahead and brake (some more, some less hard).

The Trabant, any version of the Trabant, is front wheel drive.

So you would swerve into the oncoming truck?

Actually he just didn’t cut the corner as the bus did. As far asI can see he took he took a perfectly good line without going over road markings.

Actually one would apply throttle once the clutc is fully engaged, and when you train yourself in reading traffic, you'll start to get going once traffic moves a couple of cars in front of you.

Interesting, I always thought that the Signum was a good approach to put something in place of the rather well selling Omega estate, in a world of minivans and SUVs, whereas I never liked the Chevy Malibu maxx, on photos it always looks like a swollen Astra.

I’m mostly driving a 60hp Citroen, which I can get going without applying throttle if I must. My parents diesel will get going without applying throttle.

Try to be more gentle on the clutch. Also consider to wear shoes with thinner soles for better feeling. I rarely apply the gas for slow speed driving (going in and out of parking spots, tight manoeuvring...), and it worked on several different cars (here in Germany). Because at first you've to find the sweet spot at…

In many cars it will be very hard to engage first gear while driving. It’s not like there is a lock like you find for reverse, but even with a synchronised gearbox the speed difference in gears is rather high. With worn synchros it’ll be even harder.

Actually on most cars I’ve driven, shifting at 3000rpm is rather late shifting, driving school taught me to shift at 2000, I personally prefer to shift even before that. But that’s really just my personal taste.

The electronically limited BMWs seem to run into the limiter very smoothly. The early e34 M5 are said to have a noticeable cut of point, when they hit the limiter, and the later 3.8 ones take away power smoothly making so you don’t feel the limiter as much. The e36, being an even newer car, could be even better at…

Is there a way of water/salt proofing the underside of a car? I know a modern car shouldn’t have issues, but then the paint on the car should also be enough to protect the bare metal underneath and we still care about the shinyness...

We had an e30, several e46s (we still got one 320d wagon with a manual six speed that runs perfectly fine with 200k miles and first clutch and turbo and swirl flaps in place), a 3.0 Z3 Coupé. All where really good enginewise, the Z3 had an issue with the alternator that overcharged the battery and made it go boom at…

Actually all new ‘performance’ ‘cars’ seem to have the popping sound on upshifts and weird burbly grumble sounds on downshifts and off throttle deceleration. It always sounds annoying (to me) from the outside, since they either aren’t going any faster then regular commuter traffic or are going stupidly faster (the bad…

German media said that it was a rental truck.

I’ve just driven a BMW last week with one tyres having only half of what pressure it should have had. I didn’t even crash it once, and I’ve even been above most countries speed limits. It felt wonky and probably wasn’t safe, but I thought if the car has been at a petrol station recently, somebody had checked the tyres.

This works for any number of cables. At some point it'll get flimsy. But Thrn you could just put two of these arrangements next to each other