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Originally Posted by scrape1
In the context of the article, the criticism of the 228i is fair. In terms of chassis tuning, the 228 is a smaller, slightly lighter 4 series. It's a fine luxury coupe possessing strong acceleration on the street, but when compared to more dedicated performance machines on a track, the more comfort focused chassis tuning and design decisions are exposed.
I also suspect that on the track, the car is severely hampered by the lack of a mechanical LSD. That alone would probably considerably improve the corner exit characteristics the reviewers found lacking compared with the Scion and Mustang.
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These design decisions are totally acceptable in what is a really good street performance coupe that is clearly not suited, unmodified, to track driving; and it's too luxurious to belong at the track anyway. I wonder how they'll dial out these characteristics in the M2, though, because if it's as pushy on the edge as the article says it is, that won't play in an M2.