BMW re-taking worlds longest drift record

[patsbimmer1]

I love this.  It's so meaningless but the fact that someone at BMW convinced a group of people that this is what they needed to spend company time and money doing just makes me smile.  BMW's marketing group comes up with great stuff!

[suspenceful]

Awesome.

Maybe this was to deter any skepticism about the new M5 being AWD.

[m42b32]

suspenceful said:

Awesome.

Maybe this was to deter any skepticism about the new M5 being AWD.

Hadn't even thought of that, I bet that was a big part of it!

[Jdesign]

Snap said:

///Marketing

///arketing*

What I don't get about this record, is why spend all that time making an apparatus to refuel instead of just making a bigger tank and a more efficient vehicle?

[m42b32]

Jdesign said:

///arketing*

What I don't get about this record, is why spend all that time making an apparatus to refuel instead of just making a bigger tank and a more efficient vehicle?

I think tandem-drift-refueling probably multiplies the interest/internet buzz on the video way beyond just sliding around on a skid pad for 8 hours. I'd say it's a pretty smart marketing move. Apparently Toyota just fitted a bigger tank when they did their most recent record and I hadn't even heard of them doing it.

[Earl]

Not to mention that they're German so they had to take the over-engineered way of doing it=P

[B C]

suspenceful said:

Awesome.

Maybe this was to deter any skepticism about the new M5 being AWD.

Skepticism about it actually being AWD, or skepticism about how well the "M sport, RWD only" mode works?  I thought it was a for sure thing   AWD and automatic only, but with a RWD setting like the Focus RS "drift mode"

[jc43089]

Skepticism of it still being cool even with AWD.

[suspenceful]

jc43089 said:

Skepticism of it still being cool even with AWD.

Exactly.

[B C]

That makes sense.

It is bullheaded to expect an E-segment car built in 2018 to be any bit of a pure driving machine. The GT-R doesn't pretend to be, and it isnt, but the AWD/Auto (dual clutch) combo are pretty unbeatable for the face smashing acceleration. 

But this doesnt mean we still cant mourn the death of the "mechanical" M5

[jc43089]

I prefer driving my e36 than my v70R Volvo, it has way less power but the Volvo doesn't have the same feeling.  I suspect the M5 would be fun because of the power but likely lacks the character that exists in (my opinion) e36 and older cars.

[Boris3]

Fascinating, and the refueling was pretty cool.

A more basic question: mileage and drifting aside is there another Guinness record for a single driver continuously going around in a circle for eight hours? I'm assuming that since there was no driver change, it was long time to be in a car without a truckers friend /Stadium Pal / backseat full of assorted trucker bombs.

[straight6pwr]

still ugly.

[KaiserRolls]

jc43089 said:

my v70R Volvo.

Want to buy another

[jc43089]

Nope, want to buy one?  Excellent condition.  Tons of new parts and maintenance complete.  Read for another 200k.  8500$

KaiserRolls said:

Want to buy another

[KaiserRolls]

jc43089 said:

Nope, want to buy one?  Excellent condition.  Tons of new parts and maintenance complete.  Read for another 200k.  8500$
 

Whoa whoa whoa
I was going to sell you one

[Jeff]

It’s amazing they didn’t get bored after that long of going in the same circle

[Jdesign]

Jeff said:

It’s amazing they didn’t get bored after that long of going in the same circle

Or puke. If I spin around in my desk chair more than three times I feel like Im going to loose my lunch.

[patsbimmer1]

Nobody is addressing the bigger question here... did he piss himself in that seat or was there an apparatus of some kind for removal of liquids and solids from his body?

[suspenceful]

patsbimmer1 said:

Nobody is addressing the bigger question here... did he piss himself in that seat or was there an apparatus of some kind for removal of liquids and solids from his body?

Boris brought this up yesterday... I almost don't want to know the answer