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Originally posted by racea911
There was a 240 hp M Coupe in the Drivers Ed at the PCA Club Race at California Speedway last year and the guy was absolutely spanking 911's with equal power and less weight.
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That's somewhat to be expected, although I leave a largish questionmark over it.
Nothing you said has anything to do with what I said. When addressing the cars from purely subjective perspectives, that is feel, fun-to-drive, character, etc., then, like I said, the 911, any 911, shreds the M Coupe into oblivion. Period.
M Coupes don't even register on my radar screen. The E36 M-3's do. IMO the M Coupe isn't anywhere near as desirable as the objectively superior and much better engineered S2000.
I remember my first track school on motorcycles 10 years ago on my Ducati 851--a deadly serious sportbike. I was also absolutely spanking every other supposedly superior bike (faster, better handling, etc.) on the track at the end of the day. I was even blasting much faster bikes down the straights.
Late in the day I was railing around a 80-90-mph sweeper, knee in the ground, etc., feeling god-like in my abilities being one of the two fastest students there. Then, three-time national superbike champion Reg Pridmore, whose school it was, passed me on the outside of the apex going 10 mph faster than me on a far INFERIOR machine, a lazy, fat, heavy, slow BMW K-75 WITH A PASSENGER ON BOARD. Like he was reading the Sunday paper.
It was then I truly understood that vehicles do not beat other vehicles. Basta.