M5 outsmarts itself - Clunky high-tech shifter mars BMW's smooth performance . . .
05-07-06, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by SteVTEC
The 425hp "300C" is not just a 300C with a bigger engine. It's the SRT-8 version with massively upgraded brakes, handling, and pretty much everything. It pulls 0.90g on the skidpad, can go 66+ mph through slalom courses, stop from 60 mph in about 120 ft, and runs about 13-flat in the 1/4 mile. That's all on a par with if not better than a BMW 550i for a good $20-30k less.
And not everybody cares about interior quality.
And not everybody cares about interior quality.
Honestly if brute power is what you want, its hard to go around the SRT-8.
05-07-06, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by SteVTEC
The 425hp "300C" is not just a 300C with a bigger engine. It's the SRT-8 version with massively upgraded brakes, handling, and pretty much everything. It pulls 0.90g on the skidpad, can go 66+ mph through slalom courses, stop from 60 mph in about 120 ft, and runs about 13-flat in the 1/4 mile. That's all on a par with if not better than a BMW 550i for a good $20-30k less.
And not everybody cares about interior quality.
And not everybody cares about interior quality.
but how does it fair on the track against Pontiac GTO for example?
05-07-06, 01:44 PM
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Getting smooth ( or acceptably smooth ) automatic or semi-automatic shifts out of a transmission without a fluid-filled torque converter compartment or a fluid-filled transmission itself like Buick's old Dynaflow has proven to be exceedingly difficult for transmission engineers to master. Because of the mechanical, rather than fluid, nature of the transmission you invariably have metal-to-metal contact parts instead of fluid where the shift-shock can be dispersed in. Audi, with the double-clutch DSG ( Direct-Shift-Gearbox ) seems to have done by far the best job...that transmission is truly a major advance in powertrain enginneering. 
05-07-06, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by DaveGS4
Interesting article, but I've seen some of the most biased drivel come out of that newspaper over the past few years that I pay it little attention. Home town paper sells to stoke the local egos.
The freep and the news has always been that way and chances are, always will. Take it for what it is, a Detroit news paper.....
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