01-19-2015, 11:08 PM | #111 | |
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And what do you mean by "faster" ? You mean from a stop with better tires ? Lol The tires on the 235 help make up for its relative shortcomings. It's smoke and mirrors. Every compare I've seen has been to a similarly equipped N55, cough, cough, which is the weaker 300 bhp engine. The N55 runs out of steam faster, was never underrated, and simply not as strong. It's no accident no N55 has been used in any of the is models. But it sure does get better gas mileage.
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01-20-2015, 10:57 AM | #112 | |
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To be honest, I think the M235i is the single-most Jekyl/Hyde car I've driven. There's a wide difference between the numb ECO and the fire-breathing SPORT+. However and to your point...if they can wire in a bit more stiffness into the sport modes, then I would welcome it. If you're going to go to the trouble of having 4 modes, they may as well be as different as is possible. I know I'll get flamed for this, but I'd actually like it if they could stretch even more in both directions, making COMFORT even a bit softer sprung. I'm not a big fan of spirited driving in COMFORT, but the roads in parts of LA can get pretty harsh and if I could toggle the spring rate into kitten mode to smooth things out a bit during commutes, that'd be swell. My wife is always getting pissed that she can't text when she's a passenger in my car due to the bumpiness of the ride. And that's when I'm not getting on it! :-) For me having 4 suspension modes would be ideal (soft, normal, sport, performance). Where the the softer mode is softer than current and the performance setting is tighter than the tightest setting currently. This would give quite a spread: ECO: Leave as is. Just add the new "soft" spring rate (softer than existing) COMFORT: Leave as is. Defaults to "normal" spring rate. Let folks make individual settings adjustable like SPORT does now (steering, chassis, power). SPORT: Continue as is with adjustability settings, but provide 4 spring rates (soft, normal, sport, performance) SPORT+: Beast mode. User adjustable for DSC/DTC/DSC Off, 4 selectable spring rates, ability to keep throttle mapping to Sport setting with DSC Off, etc. This would allow granny to drive to the store in ECO on bad roads and let Junior wail a bit harder at the track with all the nannies off. And to everyone's point, the car should let you set a default mode upon start up. That was a big clank by BMW missing that, IMO. |
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01-20-2015, 11:21 AM | #113 |
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Unless you can get some form of variable spring rates, you really only get one optimal suspension setting with a static steel spring and the rest is out of sync. I believe the air suspension that the Cayenne Turbo uses is able to cheat that quite well, but that's a heavy expensive suspension that probably won't work for a small car like the 2 without serious engineering cost and ultimate high price to the consumer.
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