[dude987]

On a couple occasions, I accelerated hard trying to overtake a car about a hundred yards in front of me on a long (about a quarter mile long) autobahn entry ramp. The bimmer went about its hard acceleration in a luxury business like fashion with the subdued sound of a somewhat distant exhaust burble. For a couple seconds, it felt like it was taking a long time to overtake the car in front of me. Then in the next instant before I knew it, I was blowing past that car like it was standing still and I was still accelerating hard going in excess of 100 mph. It doesn't have that raw visceral edge like a Porsche Cayman that howls and screams that the motor is working hard. The bimmer will out perform a Cayman in straight line acceleration in a subdued business like manner and do so without breaking a sweat or conveying that visceral edge of a wailing motor. Not that one is better or worse then the other. Just some different mannerisms between two different car types.