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      08-10-2021, 10:12 PM   #13
KevinGS
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Since I lost the tire lottery and didn't get the Michelins, I've been playing around with the 10-stage traction control late at night on an abandoned warehouse parking lot. I figure I may as well learn how to use it now with tires I care less about. And it's brilliant in its execution, but you certainly need to practice in a closed environment or a track, not on public roads.

But once you understand how the car will respond with various throttle inputs at the different stages of TC, you can have some fun on certain roads like on-ramps and off-ramps (with no vehicles approaching you).

The BMW engineers should be applauded for giving us the video-game like option in a $75,000 M3. And the fact that it will rate drifts is just remarkable, hard to believe this made it past BMW's legal department.


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