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acch22
10-04-2003, 07:39 PM
I was looking through my Road & Track mag and read the BMW ad:
" Simply brilliant. Our new Xenon Adaptive Headlights react to streering inputs and vehicle speed, turning as you turn, illuminating the corners ahead of you while on low beam to give you a new level of control and safety. Both high and low Xenon lights are self-leveling no matter what the road surface.
All I have to say is DAMN!!!:shocked:
BustedLX
10-04-2003, 09:14 PM
That's been around for awhile. It was first done by a man named Tucker. They didn't have Xenon back then though.

Anyhow if the headlights impressed you wait till you see the 2005 M6. Now that's raw.
red_gto
10-04-2003, 10:22 PM
Exactly why I'm giving up the CB7 for an E34! Yeah! :tu:
acch22
10-05-2003, 10:57 AM
Tucker bombed though
5spdintegra
10-05-2003, 01:15 PM
Thats awesome!
aero
10-05-2003, 01:24 PM
Yeah, those things are good... but just think what a pain in the ass its prolly gonna be to say remover the headlamps.

Has anyone heard about the M5's...the steering? I saw it on a test drive thing on speedvision, and the steering rack ratio always is changing. So at higher speeds it handles different, and say you are parallel parking, to turn the wheels from straight to all the way to one side only requires the steering wheel to go no more than 270 degrees. Where ours usually take somewhere over 360.
uncle_el
10-05-2003, 09:27 PM
yeah, i read about the adaptive headlights on the new 5 series a couple of weeks ago on bmwusa.com pretty cool.

all i know is that if you get in an accident, the cost of those headlights is going to be astronomical!

sounds like an amazing car overall, as all bmw's are.

and busted, the m6 is probably going to be unreal.
92accordDx
10-28-2003, 01:03 AM
the new m5 is also going to have a v10 and put out close to 500hp
HondaFan81
11-25-2003, 02:40 AM
yea at work they've been working on & by now prolly came out with something for Cadillacs that do the same thing...not new technology
Gigante
11-28-2003, 12:11 PM
Isnt it BMW who has created a special cruise control, which when activated sends out some kind of laser and when a car gets to close in front of it it will slow down then once they move it accelerates again. I saw it on Speed TV when some guy was driving it in germany since it has not come to the US yet.
BustedLX
11-28-2003, 12:50 PM
Originally posted by Gigante
Isnt it BMW who has created a special cruise control, which when activated sends out some kind of laser and when a car gets to close in front of it it will slow down then once they move it accelerates again. I saw it on Speed TV when some guy was driving it in germany since it has not come to the US yet.
Believe it or not I think it was actually Chrysler that developed that for the Concorde. Then shortly after they merged with Daimler-Benz and that became standard on the 1999+ redesigned S class. Also I don't think it was a laser beam but radio waves. Anyhow maybe BMW engineered it with lasers but I think the initial credit lies with Daimler-Chrysler.