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Just wanted to chime in again. Just took wife's x3m out and in straight line speed the x3m with the extra weight would pull on the manual g82 like a freight train.
As other have said the full potential of this engine in this chassis won't be realized until the AWD version.
Comparing the S58 in the G82 to the S58 in the X3M there is a bigger gap than I was even expecting. BMW has really neutered the S58 for the manual non comp variants of the G80/G82. Which is sort of sad because the Tranny could have easily handled the extra power.
BMW has given us manual loyalists what we wanted a manual G80 but the price they are asking us to pay may be more than some of us are willing to pay.
In my case I will get a G80 but it will be an AWD version to go along with my manual F80 and not to replace it.
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