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Originally Posted by DaFish
Ok, back on topic....
The more and more I read, I keep coming back to the M4...
Current: 335i full bolt ons- putting out prob close to M4 power, issues: can't get the power down, squirms because it wasn't designed to have that much power, torque steer...
Choice: M4 - issues, traction gEtting the power down - new M4 owners, is this as big a deal as the magazines say?
Choice: C63 507: issues: traction, tail happy, doesn't handle as well as M4, bad gas mileage
Choice: RS5: issues: under steer, bad mileage, wait for new model?
Choice: GTR: issues, not refined, noises, expensive to maintain
M4 is truly an all rounder, it is beautiful, fast, the full package. Coming from a FBO 335, 6MT, is the really big difference going to be the DCT?
I hate my car spinning all my performance away, will the M4 have this same issue? The articles all say this is the case which is why I was going to go all wheel drive.
AMG owners does the 507 get it's power down?
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The C63 and the GTR are getting refreshed next year. It is unclear if the RS5 is getting refreshed at all (at least in the US) and if it is, it'll be in 3 years. Also the GTR and RS5 both get 1mpg less than the M4...hardly "bad gas mileage." The C63 for sure gets bad gas mileage. The GTR also suffers significantly from understeer...the RS5 is actually fairly neutral if driven in manner to take advantage of torque vectoring. I would rethink your evaluation.
The M4 does have slight difficulty putting the power down if you're not judicious with throttle input and I'd argue that the DSC is too aggressive and cuts the power needlessly. However it's nowhere close to being as bad as the tuned N55s I've driven (whether 135i or 335i)