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In Reply to: Re: I don't understand your comment - pls explain. posted by central on April 19, 2002 at 14:07:21:
what i think he meant is that like what i did with my previous M5's, when i got them i used to drive them to their full potential! it was just plain addicting! it's just fun to hammer it on highways! i hit the limiter endless times, and in town i drove a couple of friends inside town at 90MPH just to show them the car. so what is meant is that the first owner burned out the car and drove it for lets' assume 15k, that's 15k of hard driving, and of course when you got it, you did that same thing, and now it has 30K miles of pure racing, so the third owner is going to have a raced engine from birth that has went through 30K miles of getting the hell kicked out of it, so this car acctually has a lot of it's life lost in the 30k and i don't think it'll survive to see 100K
and I couldn't disagree more. I bought my car CPO. 1st owner took impeccable care and didn't roast it. I also take care of it and don't abuse it. I haven't even hit the rev limiter. Not saying that I never will but, have you driven an automatic. Step on the gas (not all that hard either) and the tach swings all the way up to red-line as it upshifts through the gears. Many automatics are driven harder than sticks for this reason alone. Anyway, I disagree with the premise that all M5's had the piss driven out of them. Even if they were driven in a spirited fashion, that won't wear the car out or reduce it's normal service life if it's maintained properly. Sure, there are some people that do beat their cars up but I wouldn't assume that's everyone.
My $0.02.
Norm
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