[jmg]

Originally Posted by Icecreamfoo

Very good write up, jmg, enjoyed it. Couldn't believe someone wrecked the M2C, glad that I was able to try it out when I went to the South Bay event back on the 14th! I'm signed up for another round of the tour at another dealer in July, guess it'll be the original M2 then

Did you notice any turbo lag on the X3MC? I always drive with paddles and kept the RPM in the meaty range for the entire duration of my drive, forgot to observe how the boost built at the very low end

And I wonder if you and anyone else encountered this: all of the M cars I got into had almost all of the drive settings in Efficiency and Comfort, particularly with the throttle, M2C, X3MC, and the M850, and this was after multiple people have just taken the cars out before me. Makes me wonder how the hell were they thinking about these M cars' responses on their drives.... I brought it up with some of the guys and ladies arranging us drivers, none of them know a thing about this - they are not actual BMW employees but contracted 3rd party marketing firm people... To think this could have made a difference in swaying some people's buying decisions, maybe? Curious if this happened to any of the SoCal event attendees

All M cars default to efficiency and sport and sport plus. At least both my M3 and M3 CS do. Everytime I got into a car the attendant went over a few technicalities and from what remember they put it in sport for us. I could be wrong however because I immediately started changing to settings to put steering in comfort and turned on MDM in the M cars.

Re: turbo lag I was using the paddles the whole day as well so I had the same experience as you- didn't really get to see if there was turbo lag.