Racing against 1960's Ford Falcon's yes. Racing against current M3s, not a chance.
On a closed circuit and on a nice big course an M3 would eat it up of course...
In the real world however where an M3 is a hell of a lot bigger than a mini and you're never going to be able to use all of that acceleration up to more than say 50-60kmh a good tuned mini will knock the shit out of an M3, I'd love to see an M3 driver trying to beat me from one side of a city to another (Unless he was smart enough to use a ringroad ;]) or equally on properly windy Irish backroads... It's like how Hoy can outpace a Formula 1 car for the first second or two (or whatever it is exactly) That's all it takes really... Enough of this carry on however and back to the real machines!
On a closed circuit and on a nice big course an M3 would eat it up of course...
In the real world however where an M3 is a hell of a lot bigger than a mini and you're never going to be able to use all of that acceleration up to more than say 50-60kmh a good tuned mini will knock the shit out of an M3, I'd love to see an M3 driver trying to beat me from one side of a city to another (Unless he was smart enough to use a ringroad ;]) or equally on properly windy Irish backroads... It's like how Hoy can outpace a Formula 1 car for the first second or two (or whatever it is exactly) That's all it takes really... Enough of this carry on however and back to the real machines!