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Originally Posted by Medihummer
Well to be honnest i have the same feeling
Yesterday i drove a vw touareg 4.2 l diesel man that car feels twice as fast as a 550d or a x6m although on paper it does 0-62 in 5,9 sec so it should have nothing to do with bmw power. If it weren't so ugly i would go for that one. i think it has something to do with the software: bmw is filing off all the sharp edges of their cars even the m products. I think it is the software that makes that the power just doesn't kick in as wild any more so maybe a tune could do wonders
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Diesel engines will have a lot more torque than petrol engines, I had a X630d at the same time my wife had an Audi Q7 3.0Tdi, both cars have great torque, the BMW felt slower because of the variable geometry turbo which makes the car feel like a petrol engine with little lag, the Q7 has a regular turbo that explodes to full power in a second, but the joy of acceleration does not last long, I will never trade the feeling of the variable geometry turbo against a regular turbo