Performance....where do we go from here?

[Carby]

Originally Posted by dimka100

People keep calling the M5 or the C63 as elite cars, please STOP as these cars are not. Just because these cars are seen as expensive in Australia it does not make them elite in any shape or form. These cars are in fact normal quality saloons that are driven by people living in other developed countries of this world who are on the same level of income as those who live in Australia and drive new HSVs/FPVs.

The reality is that it’s very hard to turn a family saloon into a Performance car simply due to the basic laws of physics. The sheer size, mass, weight distribution, saloon body limitations, and other factors have all a very negative impact on the performance characteristics of a vehicle. The German makers use a lot of technology to try an overcome these limitations in order to make the M5/C63 and other similar cars feel like a Real Performance car. Unfortunately for us, Australian car manufacturers do not have access/funds/whatever other reasons to implement such technology in the models available for us to buy here in Australia and hence the difference in performance terms only between the M5/C63 vs say an GT/F6/GTS is very significant, especially in the areas that are most technology dependant such as handling.

Straight line speed is not so hard to achieve, and can be done by substituting capacity and reduction in efficiency to produce the desired power levels required to achieve the targeted performance. Hence why in that in that area Australian cars are not so lacking say compared to handling …

Read my post - I'm not saying M5/M3 are elite I'm saying Ferraris and Lambo's are. I believe that the M5 M3 and the like are genuine performance cars however.