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This BMW Is The Anti-Yuppie 3-Series, With A V8, Blower, And A Set Of Tires To Burn!


This BMW Is The Anti-Yuppie 3-Series, With A V8, Blower, And A Set Of Tires To Burn!

There’s a sadistic side of me that laughs at people who cringe when they see their favorite car doing the polar opposite of what it should be doing. Take, for example, the BMW 3-series. This is a car that’s good for a few things: it’s the go-to ride for people living in neighborhoods with a homeowner’s association. It’s the perfect car for divorcees and college kids who have already convinced themselves that they are going places, they make decent track-day cars, and they are pretty popular “stanced” fodder. While flinging a BMW around a road course is cool, it’s just not enough to make us like one.

Enter the Aussies, who know what it takes to put a car onto our radar. This Beemer has been treated to the Australian performance package, which includes a blown V8 and enough power to rotate the Earth, let alone whatever tires were sentenced to death on the drive axle. There is absolutely nothing subtle about this monster, from the obnoxious wheels up front to the snorting bellow from the exhaust. Would this fit in a suburban neighborhood? About as well as a nightly bonfire would, and just as well.


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2 thoughts on “This BMW Is The Anti-Yuppie 3-Series, With A V8, Blower, And A Set Of Tires To Burn!

  1. Pete Webb

    Am I the only one who doesn’t get this? Seems such a waste to build a motor that strong just to have it on the rev limiter,
    Now seeing it on the track running an 8 second pass that would be something
    to see

  2. doug gregory

    I get it. The car isn’t in a padded trailer then being pushed into a show spot then pushed back or – worse yet – setting in a museum somewhere sans fluids and the ability to be ran – as God intended it. They are flailing on their ride and entertaining the mobs of spectators in a fashion the Aussies dig. Its one of many ways of showing off which we all know is a gearhead must-do. Just having a high-winding motor for this would be cool enough, but throwing the blower on there and putting it in a not-expected chassis makes it that much better. Would I blow money on something like that…? Well no, but I don’t see the harm in others doing it.

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