[Mani59]

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Really good review

[Scorp!on]

the difference is quiet big, but it is not unexpected.
I mean with 8 gears you are always in the perfect RPM band...
and 30HP/100NM is quiet a lot.

But he says it right, if you look for driving engagement the MT is the way to go.

[evilalien]

"This thing is a weapon."

[bri1042]

I'd call that exactly what I was expecting. Two great choices for what each of us wants out of our cars.

[dialogical]

Originally Posted by Scorp!on

the difference is quiet big, but it is not unexpected.
I mean with 8 gears you are always in the perfect RPM band...
and 30HP/100NM is quiet a lot.

But he says it right, if you look for driving engagement the MT is the way to go.

This is where I've landed. It feels so weird to be buying a nearly 500 horsepower car and going in expecting it to be slow, but I've hit the point as a car enthusiast where acceleration and speed numbers just stop mattering past a certain point.

Two cars ago I was in a very different headspace with my B8.5 S4. I kept convincing myself that if I could just make the damn thing faster it would be more fun, and when a full E85 dual pulley setup didn't do it for me I figured the only other logical place to go was to a Model 3 Performance.

My god is the M3P fast - it's fast from a stop, but it pulls just as hard at 20, or 30, or 40. The kind of speed that makes your head feel a little fuzzy. But even with that impossible speed, what I came to realize during my time with the Tesla is that in my search for a more fun experience I had actually moved further from my goal.

I had that car for 6 months before swapping out of the lease and ordering a 6MT.

For the past 3 weeks I've been borrowing one of my friend's spare cars - an old 5MT Impreza "Sport". It feels like a lumbering beast compared to the Tesla and the Audi, but I'll be damned if I don't find myself more excited to drive that car than either of those other two.

[filostrato]

A little frustrating to know much more the base care is capable of with an ECU tune alone...

Also exciting to imagine what people are able to do once it's cracked!