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It has evolve tune which gives 510 hp, dp full exhaust, lowering (Springs or coil over not sure) evolve wheels plus the eventuri stuff.
Overall not impressive as an ESS E-tronic makes more power than that car and has much better coding. |
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"Basically, it’s just like activating Launch Control but with a slight difference. When you activate LC you have to press the acceleration pedal to the floor, beyond the kick down pressure point, however you like. Remember this, it’s important. The Smokey Burnout is activated just the same only that on cars that have this function, they way you press the gas pedal matters. If you press it gradually (slowly) you’ll activate launch control. If you smash it (press it hard and quick) you’ll enter the Smokey Burnout mode and you’ll burn a lot of rubber." I learned of this feature when a friend of mine who works for BMW took me for a ride in an M2 before they officially went on sale, I joked with him about how useless BMW launch control was because all it did was engage the clutch instantly and do a giant burnout. He was confused, parked the car and engaged launch control and to my surprise the car hooked up and took off quickly in a way I had never felt a DCT car do before and he showed me the two different ways you can use launch control in some M-DCT equipped cars. I thought it was controlled by how far you press the throttle when engaging the launch control feature but evidently it's actually controlled by how quickly you floor the throttle...even more confusing than I thought. |
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There's some debunking needed for that mythical "smokey burnout mode". Launch control is launch control, when you see the little flag and the message, LC is engaged, regardless of how quickly you press the accelerator to get it engaged. However, when one just quickly mashes the accelerator quite heavily (does not need to be to the floor nor engaging the kickdown button), the ECU will raise the engine RPM before dumping the clutch, resulting in a "smokey burnout". This is not a "special mode", it's just how the M-DCT have always worked.
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04-07-2019, 12:26 PM | #29 | |
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When my friend applied the throttle a little more gradually to turn on LC, he still launched with his foot flat on the floor and never tried to modulate the throttle himself but I could feel the DCT’s clutch slipping to manage traction without having to cut the engine’s power or dump all the boost. It was a massive difference and the car fired out of the hole in a big hurry. I had leased a 335is with DCT in the past but I think that car could only launch in the first way, or at least that’s all I ever had happen the handful of times I used Launch Control. You’d always hear the bang as the clutch engaged fully followed by tons of spin and a slow start. |
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04-07-2019, 01:33 PM | #31 | |
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Matt is a bonafide motoring journalist (you do the searching...) who cut his teeth doing the base car tests before progressing. He has not changed his character or approach from day one, making him genuine beyond fault. If you don’t like (or even understand ) his regional accent or quirks that’s good, we’re all entitled to our opinions. Personally, Mr. DeMuro’s impossibly high Kermit the Frog tones grate with me but I do respect the man’s work and would not seek to criticise but would openly offer differing views to his, as and when they do arise. If people wish to criticise the ‘science’ of CarWow’s approach, this is also fine. Matt is pretty open and honest about the flaws in each of his comparison tests but come on, as many have already alluded to, this is all a bit of fun from which we may all draw our own conclusions. Last edited by DrEd; 04-07-2019 at 06:51 PM.. |
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I want to follow the people on this board to their job and heckle. Everybody anonymously clowns these reviewers and get so butt hurt at any video that doesn't align with their preconceived ideas. Tape a week at your day gig and post it up for the rest of the armchair experts.
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That's absurd. Let me tape my week and edit the content to be exactly what I want shown. That's what these videos are. These aren't just live feeds. And they put them on the internet themselves. Therefore criticism is fair game.
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You do need to engage kickdown to activate launch control. See tutorial from BMW-M:
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im shocked to my core that an m3 with a bunch of more power running stock wheels and tires was months slower.
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I enjoyed watching. Roll race and brake tests were informative. They clearly show some of the numbers they quoted were measured on different days, in different cars. That information is to be taken with a big grain of salt. Still, Some info is better than none.
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