Originally posted by Stefan Rosier@Mar 25 2005, 01:44 PM
Thank you all for the invitations to sepang. Unfortunetly due to my geographical distance, I can only experience its 15 turns and 2 straights via my ps2. and I usually run with all its grandstands empty, crashing and burning at turn 9, projected gloriously on my wall.
As a new visitor to your country (albeit via my monitor and keyboard, for the time being), I’m wide-eyed and flabbergasted to know that there are such obnoxiously rude and hideously vocal individuals amongst your commuinity. Aren’t you after all, as an automotive-focussed forum, a local community reaching out to (and striving for) a global audience? Far from me to give you, as a visitor, a lecture on simple courtesy and manners, I think some specific responses to my postings have been extremely malicious and dare I say, executed without a nuance of finesse nor sophistication.
Are you the best Malaysia can offer? Your Prime Minister has just recently headlined "Malaysia is a story waiting to be told…" I think he has absolutely no idea the story that I’m getting here.
My name is stefan and its not a pseudonym. The Necessary is a pseudonym, so is ilovevagina (albeit a culturally insensitive one), so is walrus, kevster, etc. I’m surprised that if you profess to be a porcheholic, you do not recognise me. Must I really give you clues and further insult your intellect?
Talk is indeed cheap hence I extend an invitation to spa, to zandvoort, to hockenhiem, or even the nring. Perhaps then you can show that your mr yoong was indeed an anomaly in f1 and malysia does possess world-beating talent.
I never go against my better judgement and my advise is you shouldn’t either. If you have driven for as long and as much as I have, youl’ll understand.
Have I describe anything inconsistent of an m3 that made you doubt my ownership of one? (besides, of course, our differing views on the car’s behaviour and character) It’s a fairly common car over here.
I have never questioned your ownership of an m3 nor have I asked for your references to vouch for you as an ‘individual of known quantity’. Why are you compelled to continously prove yourself the real deal? Are you trying to be clever but end up being insidiously manipulative? As to other members attesting to your driving skills, I see that they take great pleasure and amusement of your antics on a gokart. Do you participate in races often? Are the spectators not safe whilst you’re in a kart?
I see great contradiction here – how can one drive ones m3 ‘hard’ if sport was only just recently discovered? Dsc on? And launch control never released? And you have not ever tasted oversteer? (you don’t need insane speeds to wag its tail – I can do mine at 60) Never tracked? How many sets of tyres have you gone thru? Perhaps you’ve gone thru 6 sets of fronts with the orgy of understeer that you’re experiencing while still having 70% on your FIRST set of rears?
If you have no mechanical curiosity wahtsoever, then perhaps the 911 is not the car for you. Mind you, cos the engineers at Porsche have spent the better part of 4 decades trying to correct their mistake in physics. It needs sensitive, patient, and ultimately, accomplished drivers. You’re not one, .....yet.
Have you driven any 911 for any length of time?
Which one? The gt3 that you almost bought? For you to deem it interesting with great steering feel, can you describe its great steering feel? Wats it like entering corners?
Or have you been reading too many magazines? which ones?
I have suggested the administrator to set up a non-bmw thread but I have not received any rsponce except one from a committee member derisively questioning my understanding of the English language but I’ve followed my better judgement to not dignify him with a reply. Again, talk is indeed cheap.
My personal take is that one can only outgrow ones car if one have exhausted the car’s abilities (sometimes that includes writing it off – see wrecked exotics) and from your postings, as per your story telling, your level of driving skill does not even allow you to scratch the surface of the m3’s abilities. Hence my suggestion to sell it for a 318ci that would be a more suitable tool for you - at this point in time.
The word to describe the m3 is NOT “boring”, perhaps its ‘compromised’.
You’re only qualified to describe it as boring if your name ends with huisman, cecotto, soper, ravaglia, stuck, winkelhock, et al.
Otherwise you’re nothing more than a rude undeserving yuppie poseur suffering from a massive inferiority complex.