Why are BMW's so slow in reality ( specifically 335i )

[Crono0001]

I won't lie. I mash the throttle plenty of times on public roads. But I think the qualm here is with these repeated posts:

http://986forum.com/forums/general-discussions/46879-test-drove-2013-camaro-ss-manual-not-impressed.html

http://986forum.com/forums/general-discussions/45737-bmw-335ci-not-bad-almost-fast-us.html

boxster vs 350z?

Killed by a modified evo X

No "Race" or "Kills" section?


I've never met Mr. Inquiry in person. I don't know if he drives the way he posts, but if he does, he belongs in a turbo'd civic or a Mustang more than a Boxster. There are soooo many ways to get cheaper speed than a Porsche Boxster of all things.



But back to the conversation about track vs. street.

Even if the street was wide open and there was nobody around to injure, it STILL would not be better than a track environment. Your wreck could block the road, and cause someone unaware on a dark night to hit your smoldering pile of car. Tracks have people watching out for wrecks. There are fire teams and medical teams nearby. We have flag guards on duty for a reason. No 'street' or 'public' scenario will ever be as safe as a track.

If you want to test you and your car's mettle, take it to the track, because that's where it really matters. Straight line driving is stupid. I would bet money that I could pull faster times in my 1.8L Miata on any technical course than someone who does nothing but highway roll racing.

[Devact]

As a fellow St. Louis native to 986-Inquiry, I don't want to see him street racing around my family, however that's not what this thread was really about, so to bring it back to topic:

I traded my '02 S in last year on a 2015 BMW 435i xDrive convertible for my wife's DD. I will absolutely assure you, her car is fast.... Significantly faster than the Boxster ever was. Mashing to full throttle in Sport or Sport + mode and shifting yourself via the paddles, once you get to the point where the turbos are spooled it is fast enough that you will run up the rear of the car in front of you before you even fully realize what happened. 30-70 happens before you even know you're there. There is an economy mode that changes the chassis dynamics, shift point and throttle response to somewhere south of a Ford Festiva, and there is also the normal Comfort mode that will not light any fires. I would estimate 0-60 in Comfort at somewhere around 6 - 6.5 seconds, and it also has such a low shift point that it barely ever gets much up past 2k on the tach. If you were doing this on the highway, then chances are extremely good that the driver was in Comfort mode. In Sport or Sport +, especially with a driver shifting for themselves, you would never have stood a chance.

However, I will say that it never FEELS fast. It feels like a German luxury performance coupe at all times, every corner at speed, and every take off from a stop light. I've said it before, but the Boxster just felt like raw, unbridled fury at times, and made you feel like you had far more power than you did, and were going far faster then you were. The BMW, its just there, no feeling to it at all.