I took my son to a teen driving school yesterday called Street Survival, where they teach you the things they don’t teach in regular driving schools. Things like emergency lane changes and hard braking in your daily driver car. Also a skid pad and a slalom. Everyone should go this school, it teaches proper driving dynamics, not just the basics of driving. The streets would be a lot safer if this were a requirement.
Here he is having fun on the slalom, he did pretty well!
I’ve accepted that I’ll probably never own all of the performance cars that I studied in car magazines in my youth, but getting the chance to drive them and photograph some of them offers immense satisfaction in its own right. I’ve driven a little over 600 cars so far, but the E36 M3 has eluded me up until now, despite thousands of miles with E46 M3s.
The E36, even as a convertible, was everything I hoped it would be: a perfectly-sized scalpel, brimming with feel and character. Compared with E46, I find it similar to the relationship between the Z3 and Z4: sometimes the less-performance-intentioned car can deliver more immediacy and thrills at road speeds. Maybe I just prefer lower limits and lower beltlines. Oh, and it’s fantastic to photograph, too! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl9e806OaxE/