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Originally Posted by YKIGI
BMW was always extremely fast through the turns and under braking. Now people are getting excited over 0-60 and quarter mile times on an AWD that’s too heavy to carve up a good lap. Ok.
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Originally Posted by genebike
I’m so glad someone finally mentioned this. I read the whole article and aside from gushing over the straight line speed, no other performance was mentioned. These used to be drivers cars…not ugly drag specialists.
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Welcome to this part of the forums I guess? All of this has been discussed extensively here but TL;DR for new folk: AWD is faster around tracks too. Lots about this from respected journalists on YouTube who actually drove otherwise identical AWD and RWD cars around tracks.
It's not a debate at this point. But not entirely unexpected when something makes the front page and people who have not been following along show up with little context and preconceived notions.
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Originally Posted by PLF69
It is and I tested it a lot on and off track but unfortunately you cannot drive with all nannies ON in RWD mode in your AWD car and the traction control adjustable levels is pretty much only good for straighline or doing donuts. If you have the driving skills of driving with everything off all the time then I agree the AWD feature can be a huge advantage in some situations. They would of probably have sold a shit load of Manual AWD cars, seriously.
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BMW has published videos that explains how various traction control levels work, and these characterizations are not accurate. Forget that they run counter to what people who actually own these cars know.
You're also a year and half late to the debate, but the
conclusive conclusion on the G80.G82 forum including from actual owners is that buying the AWD version is better in all circumstances except:
- if you want a manual (and obviously only because BMW doesn't offer AWD with manual) or
- if you're routinely pushing it over 130 mph (about the point where RWD Competition is finally able to get more power down; and that matters more to you than anything below 130 mph).