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      10-14-2021, 09:00 AM   #25
Efthreeoh
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Originally Posted by MightyMouseTech View Post
Unless you want a car with a suspension that was not designed 50 years ago.
Funny thing, the Oletha is based on the E86 Z4 Coupe; so LOL, it has the E46 platform suspension (antiquated as you think it is ).

I just found out the car is based on the E86 from the thread about it on the E85/86 Forum. Look close and you'll see the rear quarter windows are original E86 as is the roof, which I missed last week at first glance. Looking at the few interior photos, which I didn't until now, it's straight E85/86 door cards hanging on the doors.

So basically its just a re-facia'd E86 with a BMW E90 V8 in it, with coil-overs and big brakes. Even screams more Z8 poser than I originally thought.

So apparently, the "perfect" BMW DOES START with an E86 Coupe...
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."

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