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Originally Posted by Ecoce1
I have to disagree on the traction part. I have drifted in to turns (with the biggest smile) on the GT350, to realize a few moments later, that I had the traction on, the entire time. It seems like the car is very late on trying to catch it, if it starts sliding. On the M4/M3 with traction on, you can take turns pretty quickly and the car wont slide at all. The traction on the BMW turns on instantly. Now the traction does kill power and all that, and I usually prefer to turn traction completely off, for the fun factor to increase (on roads that allow it, with no people around), but it seems like on the Shelby the traction does not kick on instantly as it does on the BMW. Some people might say this is a good thing, and I agree it makes it much more fun to drive the car (as long as you know what you are doing), but in that case, it defeats the purpose of having traction control. If I take quick turns while it is raining on Shelby, the tail almost always starts sliding. On the M4/M3 it is very difficult to make the tail slide when traction is on, even in rain.
I do keep the Shelby in Sports mode, most of the time, so maybe the traction starts working more like MDM in this mode, that might be a factor, that I just am not aware of. In that case they should have marked that in some way, as BMW shows a different indication when MDM mode is on, instead of traction being completely off. On the Shelby in track mode, it instantly shows that the traction is completely off, so that does make sense. Which makes me think that the traction control does not change from going from normal mode to sport mode.
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I've never had that happen with full nannies on in the GT350. Full nannies catch everything (within physical limitations of course like any car), sport and track it loosened up in steps with Track mode giving you a lot of leeway. That was my problem with MDM, it doesn't give you hardly any leeway, it just kills the power instantly like you have all of the nannies on anyway. You have to shut everything off in the M3/4 to have some fun, which I was never too comfortable with.
It does tell you that you are in sport mode just like when you are in MDM mode on the dash. Differently of course, but it does tell you and it should be noticeable because the exhaust valves will be open as well.