M5 discovers a Neon has midrange acceleration :-)

uta_flyinghigh · Post by **uta_flyinghigh** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:22 am

That happened to me before the US trip but hadn't had time to post it. I was on my way to a night out with my wife, cruising nicely in the outside lane of a 3-lane street @ around 90km/h (70 speed limit) when I get a series of angel eyes in my mirror. I couldn't go any faster as I had a car in front of me and another one was coming up of the middle lane.

Fool flashes his high beams and attempts to pass in the middle lane (without signalling of course).

I figure it's a 520i or 520d (that's what most 5-series are here) and decide to give him a lesson. I signal, drop it back in 3rd and floor it. The BMW looks like it's been stuck in mud. I get her to 150ish kph then drop off as we arrive to the next set of lights.

That's when I saw what kind of 5-series I just had smoked :

Driver of course passably annoyed

Oops. Maybe he missed a gear ???

UTA

NeonTuning · Post by **NeonTuning** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:44 am

LoL if that is a real M5 he wasn't trying

uta_flyinghigh · Post by **uta_flyinghigh** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:32 am

So true. It's a real M5 but he didn't expect me to be as quick.

UTA

mean98neon · Post by **mean98neon** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:55 pm

thats a new M5 with the V10 and 500 HP... oh and a 9000RPM redline... he was probly just driving and didnt even notice you pinned it.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:32 pm

uta_flyinghigh wrote:So true. It's a real M5 but he didn't expect me to be as quick.

UTA

Or he wasnt racing you

uta_flyinghigh · Post by **uta_flyinghigh** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:54 am

Given we went from 90 to 150 in a short while, I doubt he wasn't aware. He definitely was holding up, that's a fact.

UTA

NeonTuning · Post by **NeonTuning** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:08 am

a guy from Carfanatic.nl just bought a E46 M3...

MAN THAT"S FUCKING FAST!!

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:51 pm

uta_flyinghigh wrote:Given we went from 90 to 150 in a short while, I doubt he wasn't aware. He definitely was holding up, that's a fact.

UTA

Just makin sure

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:57 am

mean98neon wrote:he was probly just driving and didnt even notice you pinned it.

I rented a cadilliac STS, that was the nicest thing about it you could do 100+ and never know it, she just hummed along like it would at half the speed.

mean98neon · Post by **mean98neon** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:27 pm

Ive been in an BMW M6 when my buddy worked at Beemer... same motor.. the 500HP V10.... Its a fact that he didnt think nething of your neons mid range speed... If uve ever actually heard one of these M5's goin down the road.. it sounds like an F1 car it is insane!.... I heard it coming, had no idea what it was.. was waiting for a ferrari or a lambo to come around the corner... and then the sedan comes out of nowhere! unbelieveable engines in these cars... so please just stop saying he thought your neon had any kind of midrange speed.. Im sure he didnt even down shift or put the throttle down 1/4 way....

BoostedEverything · Post by **BoostedEverything** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:59 am

I think the M5 makes as much whp at idle as your neon does at peak =)

99sport · Post by **99sport** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:32 am

BoostedEverything wrote:I think the M5 makes as much whp at idle as your neon does at peak =)

so are you just looking for really really old posts and posting on them or what