View Single Post
      08-18-2012, 04:18 PM   #23
KoenG
Lieutenant Colonel
Belgium
1418
Rep
1,519
Posts

Drives: i4 eDrive40 & Cupra Leon 300
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Europe

iTrader: (0)

Quote:
Originally Posted by ovekvam View Post
I guess all the F20/F21 models with smaller and lighter engines should have less inertia and better basic handling than the M135i. But I guess the journalists are dazzled by the engine performance. And when they test the M-Sport version, they run with too wide run flat tires in the rear.
Although yaw inertia is important, there is more than the horizontal spread around the center of gravity to determine the final vehicle dynamic behaviour.

BMW told that the M135i has specific parts and that you cannot transform any other 1 into an M135i, as I'am not mistaken, they referred to the suspension with specific bushings and stuff.

I'am also baffled that the M135i gets so raving first reviews while a UK magazine recently wrote about the 125d with M kit that it was not an amuzing car on twisty roads and its' strenghts are in a straight line!

Why should the difference between the M135i and the others be so big?
Appreciate 0