Oh if only he had a crystal ball back then to see future fuel prices!
http://i62.tinypic.com/v2tdkw.jpg

True, but you can still get it on the Continent, esp. in Germany, but that's not much use here, sadly...:(

V-Power all the way, all my life, always.
Never liked BP for whatever reason.
Never filled my car with supermarket fuel. I'm not trying to upset any one who is filling at their local supermarket for whatever reason. But there is a reason why cheaper fuel is cheaper and thats quality. Fuel for your car is like a......cup of tea for a man, would you drink one every hour (like I do) made from a cheap tea bag (something like 100 bags for £1) ???

Once I've seen a whole program dedicated to fuel, 5 brands, 4 cars. From 1liter engine to 4liter petrol. Each car was run on each fuel (tanks emptied each time they were filled with fuel). Road test and rolling road test for BHPs increase.
Vpower topped all the tables. Best quality and most power increase (best results on the 4 liter of course)

Sorry, but it is in fact all about profit, nothing to do with quality.

Shell Nitro has been crucified on the M3 forums as it is making all our cars run like a bag of spanners, particularly hunting at tickover.

There are plenty of tests available which have shown Tesco's Momentum is as good if not better, our own member Amar posted some stuff about this a long while ago.

Sorry if it upsets you, but you're just falling for the marketing

Don't worry mate, you can't upset me of offend me so we are cool here +++

So what you are saying is that Shell is a **** fuel and Supermarket is the market leader in fuel quality??

Was it actually proven on the rolling road that Shell is s*it by the way??
Did any M3 owner compared them on the rolling road??
So far I've seen this sort of test proving that BP and Shell are the best, haven't seen one proving that they make our cars run like a bag of spanners :cool:

Maybe M3's are like most women, over sensitive? ;)

I'm a Nitro fan myself, made a massive difference to my D2 and I'm continuing to use it in my D3

Why would you need a rolling road to check if it's hunting on idle, it's pretty bloody obvious

To prove ''M3 theory'' ?? , because so far, surely not only me, I hear that Vpower makes cars run better not like a bag of spanners. Rolling road would be an ideal scenario to prove it with no doubts. Maybe M3s don't like to good fuel. Even here people say that Vpower made a significant or difference on their cars or at least made them run better.
Maybe there is really something to do with M3s?? Sounds maybe ridiculous but equally ridiculous as bag of spanners.

Lets just don't get angry or fight over it and have interesting conversation +++
It's not my intention and I'm sure not your either, just saying ;)

:respekt::cheers:

It's an interesting discussion, but if it was that widespread a problem with BMW's (or even just M3's) it would be all over the motoring press and web sites and it just isn't.
What I do know is that both my S8's run better and get/got better mpg on the high-octane Shell petrol, though the old one was mostly run on cooking 95.