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      07-22-2013, 03:42 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by NISFAN View Post
It doesn't sound anything like an inline 6

Two bad things:

There is a lot of under steer sound

The gearing looks long like M5/6, ECO gearing.

Other than those it looks awesome. How do you apply to become a BMW test driver?
Wouldn't say there is lot's of "under steer sound". It seems like there is tire squealing when driven hard and powersliding. It doesn't look like it understeers either.

Hard to tell if it's long geared from a video, but generally turbo cars tend to have longer gears than NA engines. A highly tuned NA engine often has a narrow powerband at very high revs, so it's important to keep the engine in it's sweet spot. A turbo engine has a broader, useable, power band. Meaning that the gearing is optimized to keep the engine in it's max torque range, lower in the rev range, and today, often from low down all the way to redline.

One of the advantages/disadvantages of turbo engines...
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