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Originally Posted by No one
Hi RMech,
Please don't worry. I just had may be a false but strong impression you were trying to present the performance difference between 116i and 118i as negligible simply because you wished it were so. I neither took it personally (the fact I have a 118i is a pure coincidence) nor intended to bother you. I just wanted to share my opinion it was pointless. And even tried to explain why - all in vain. I'm sorry.
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Hi No one,
Apology accepted, but telling someone that they are only kidding themselves and they brought the wrong car is deffnitely going to upset people
Perhaps I should explain the background. I went to the bmw dealer, not thinking I could afford a new car. I was surprised to find that I could by using PCP, so I looked at the specs for cars that suited my budget, and then chose a 116i MSport, as the performance on paper looked fine for me.
I then looked on some forums, that said the 116i is very underpowered, and I just couldn't understand, because I couldn't see how it could do 0-100km/h in 8.5 seconds yet feel underpowered?
My last car was an Nissan Almera 1.8 Auto 2004 , which did 0-100km in more like 12 seconds, so I was expecting the 116i to feel a lot quicker, but the forums made me think that it was going to feel gutless.
Consequently I did a lot of research to try to find what is the real world difference between the 116i and 118i (which I could afford if I wanted it enough), because as an Engineer I know statistics can be very deceptive.
I have shared the most objective information that I could find in the form of two youtube video, which compare the 116i and 118i back to back. It's certainly not meant to offend anyone or try to claim that a 116i performs the same as a 118i, that has 25% more power.
It's just designed to help people like myself, who are trying to chose between the two, and accurate perspective, because after reading the forums I had lost perspective.
