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Message: <blockquote data-quote="f8." data-source="post: 96161" data-attributes="member: 923">it is surprising to find a heavier and less powerful engined thus less powerful(power:weight) car lap a circuit faster than its opposition. and it is based on this scepticism that naturally draws people to suspect other variables. without knowing the full details of the test, it could be anything from the driver being a maser man who can wring a maser to within inches of its life and beyond to bring it back to life from death, and to lesser degrees in the bmw, to the bmw having improperly set up suspension settings and tyre conditions, to the track favouring the maser's combo of low end turbocharged torque and gearing cf the m5's higher revving unit.to zagato, this will sound like bmw coming up with excuses and it may well be, or may not.nonetheless, whilst we can go on and on debating the perhaps and what ifs without really reaching a sound conclusion bar that borne of exhaustion and boredom, i think its safe to say people who buy masers are not exactly the sort who'd take it to track to prove a point or two to the m5 owners. they don't care so much what the maximum hp is and at what rpm it comes. they just want, 'more than enough'. beyond that, they start looking for things that technical specifications do not and cannot measure. like how nice the engine and exhaust sounds. or how connected it make owners of past masers feel to this current one. or how the interior design stimulates the senses in a way the m5's interior completely fails to even attempt.personally, the maser wins on grounds of exclusivity. but the engineer within me yearns for a superlative engine, and a v10 at that.if i had the money, a car catalogue consisting of a single white a4 that simply reads, 'this car has an f1 tech derived v10 that hits red line at 8500rpm' is good enough to warrant a buy.</blockquote>

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