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Originally Posted by Transfer
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Originally Posted by Serious
I test at drove a g80 yesterday and my current car is an e92 m3 comp. I've had pretty much every m3 and m coupé except the f80 m3 and going back to back from the g80 to the e92 it's pretty clear the ride quality in the e92 is superior.
The g80 feels similar to the f80's I've driven where the quest for faster lap times has lead to a ride on normal roads that's too firm IMO. I will still probably buy the car as it's best of the current competition but I wish bmw softened down comfort suspension so there was less vertical motion transmitted to the occupants on rough roads. Previous m3's struck a better balance between compliance and body control IMO.
To me despite how fast the m3 is on track it's still a road car and needs to work on the road. That's my biggest complaint about the car but oh well.
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I had E90 and E92 competition pack M3s and found their ride to be very brittle. Like road lane turtles would shake and rattle through the entire car and they felt very crashy going over minor potholes. However, undulations and bumps in the road were fine. If the G8x is crashy and brittle then I might be out.
The S65/S85 were pinnacle excitement for a road car but at a great cost in many measures and now they are dated in performance too. The rest of the E9x was pretty ho hum although I did personally like the interior and exterior design quite a lot. But the hydraulic steering and DCT attached to that motor is something else. I disliked the 6MT on the E9x because well, it was just not good.
I've had ownership time now in modern N20, N55, B58, and S58 powered cars as well as a couple FI Audis and when you move to those powertrains in modern packages, it's impossible for me to go back to NA as it would be just for the sound and that's not enough. |
The g80 doesn't crash on bumps at all. It's well damped over sharp impacts it's more depressions and small humps in the road where the entire body seems to track the road surface rather than the wheel moving up and down and leaving the body isolated.
It's not harsh or brittle feeling it just transmits a lot of vertical motion into the cabin I feel.
I still am shopping for the car and it won't put me off buying it as it's a trend among all newer sports cars but I still don't like it.