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Originally Posted by n55x3
IMHO if you live anywhere above 5000' a turbo car is the only way to go. I've driven over Eisenhower Pass (11,150') on numerous occasions and the difference between a N/A car and a turbo is night and day. I've been in 300+ hp n/a cars that required multiple downshifts to maintain speed. While I've gone over the pass in ~200 hp turbo motors that purred right up the mountain all while keeping the RPMs decently low.
I haven't driven the X3 over the pass yet but we did take it up the Mt. Washington auto road in NH and it was never at a lack of power. It pulled nicely at low rpms (this ZF 8 spd in normal mode HATES to downshift).
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I think that Mt. Washington auto road in NH is pretty steep in some places as I've heard. I'll be driving some fairly steep canyon roads thruout the west at slow speeds and wondered if I would be losing power and have to constantly downshift or not. Seems like I have an answer now. Thanks alot.