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      06-23-2015, 02:48 AM   #35
SteveC
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Eco Pro is Fab

In my opinion, Eco Pro is marvellous, brilliant in fact....it takes all the economy oriented, dynamics inhibiting, freude am fahren (joy of driving) limiting, reasons-for-buying-the-car destroying set points and collects them all together into a single button push that you can assiduously avoid using for the lifetime of the car.

At best Eco Pro will save you a couple of miles per gallon, while frustrating the hell out you by providing all the dynamics of a 1996 518 with worn piston rings and leaking valves.

In Eco Pro you essentially waste the £25 - £38,000 you spent on your car in order to save 1/10,000th of that at each visit to the fuel pump.

Driving 10,000 miles per year, a 5mpg improvement will net you about £150 p.a savings or 0.5% of the average purchase price. Eco Pro literally ruins the responsiveness of a BMW and is there to fulfil government rules and regulations. Eco Pro completely negates the reason for buying a BMW. As I said at the beginning, what makes it brilliant is that all those performance destroying set points are collected together in 1 button that you don't need push....leaving the rest of the car's performance pristine and a joy to use
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