Test Drive: 2009 BMW M6 - Popular Science
But as I arrived in Davis, California, on the day my parents moved there from Seattle, I was hit with the sudden realization that I had, in fact, chosen the perfectly wrong trip on which to test BMW's monstrous M6. Davis, it turns out, is possibly... It boasts the greatest number of bike lanes per capita of any American city, and the students and professors of UC Davis are the backbone of a daily parade of thousands of citizens whizzing and dinging between farmers' market and campus center,... As a daily cyclist on the very un-bike-friendly streets of New York City, I smiled to see these happy, helmetless denizens safely pedaling their frisbees and picnic baskets and children to and fro. The car is perhaps best-known for the small button on the steering wheel marked "M". Until I was out on the highway, I'd already been impressed by the incredible power and control of the M6. No turbolag, no shimmy in the back wheels, and even... Punching that modest "M" turns a 400-horsepower sportscar into a 500-horsepower shotgun. Suddenly you hear the whine of extra air being pulled through the wheel wells and into the mix, and you realize there's far, far more acceleration at your disposal than you could possibly use. Source: www.popsci.com
