Comments by "Golden Croc" (@GoldenCroc) on "8000RPM Bmw M3 E46 CSL: Unleashing A German Legend On The Autobahn!" video.

Yes. Horsepower has nothing to do with it.
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Its a nice car, but the new one is much faster, both acceleration and top speed. Thats just the way it is, because of so much more power. The only way they are similar is if the new one still has the top speed limiter.
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And it was made as a daily driver. The weekend car BMW made at the time would have been the M coupe. Just goes to show how different things can be.
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Turbos need more cooling, which means worse areo. Still the difference isnt very large at all. Its more that older cars without turbo were smaller, hence lower aero resistance to begin with. Of course, a turbo can heatsoak and lose power much more easily.
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@lemcakes32422 Yes? One should hope so. But how is that relevant to any of the posts here, including mine?
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@lemcakes32422 No, not really. Especially not considering the factors that this car was made for.
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@lemcakes32422 No you didnt, not when it was as I said above.
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@lemcakes32422 I have said it two times before above, please read the post properly, as its written. Cars are judged on what they are made for. This is an elementary fact when judging cars. Hence it certainly didnt get "smoked" when doing what is was built to do. Now, do you finally understand?
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@lemcakes32422 Touring and GT car classes, mostly. But neither street version has much in common with their full on competition version. No common impreza was made for rallying either. That was the competition versions job. Same with the E46 M3. Better to focus what they were truly made for: Having fun on the street, but in different ways. Seems pretty elementary to me, as said (again) above.
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@lemcakes32422 You havent looked very well then. E46 has won WTCC for example, as high as it goes for touring cars, and of course lot of lower classes. None of that is relevant to a road going version though, as said above. Race cars are race cars, not the street cars discussed here.
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@lemcakes32422 Its as much a M3 as any race car is, or any rally impreza is a street impreza. Perhaps you dont realise what a true competition car is? They often dont share a bolt with the street version. Perhaps base engine block, and the roof body panel, if you are lucky... but even that is not very common at the top levels of motorsport. Thats how things work. Anyway, wholly irrelevant as said above. You have never seen a rally spec impreza racing a rally or race spec BMW. Never. Which meams its street cars we are discussing, just as it always was. Which was my point from post #1. Both cars are great at what they are meant for, your strange comparison makes no sense if you know anything about cars beyond an extreme surface level. Its akin to calling an F1 car slow compared to a stock honda accord because the F1 car got stuck in the gravel in the parking lot, whereas the Accord with its higher ground clearance, did not.
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@lemcakes32422 Thats what I said about how it works, dude.... its right there in the post. I notice a total lack of adressing what I said, not only in that post, but since the start. Get back to me when you are serious. It seems you are not.
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