Forget, for a moment, this M6's 628horsepower V10 engine, because that's more or less irrelevant here. On this road, even the standard 507 horsepower woulcLbe more than enough. because power is less important here than agility and grip.
There are 365 corners in less than seven miles on this narrow old road, which snakes
up Mt. Hamilton from San]ose. It was originally created so that horse-drawn carts
could bring the 36-inch telescope to the Lick Observatory back in 1876, and it doesn't seem to have gotten much wider since. Since the M6 we're driving and the MS up ahead fill the width of the road in some spots, we're lucky we don't meet any oncoming traffic on the way 10 the summit.
As much as the absence of traffic anywhere in California tends to surprise us, we're even more astonished to find these stately M cars climbing to the top with such alacrity. For that we can thank the people at Dinan Engineering.. who've turned these luxury limos into the serious sports cars most enthusiasts expected from the start.
