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Originally Posted by corn18
It's not turbo lag, it's the computer dumbing things down. When I bought our X3 M40i, it was a rocket. Over time, it became a dog. Then I towed a 5,000 lbs trailer over 20 hours. When I dropped off the trailer, the first words out of my mouth were "holy shit!". The X3 was back! Now a month later it has become boring again. Not sure why BMW has installed an old lady algorithm, but when it is new, it is faaaaaaaast.
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Can you be sure this isn't down to your loving the boost in performance with the trailer unhitched?
I remember when I had a 1.6 litre car with a turbo (1980's...). If I wanted to overtake I needed to drop couple of gears, hold the revs then whoosh. Lag was more like 2 seconds.