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      05-28-2020, 12:58 PM   #45
clivem2
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Originally Posted by corn18 View Post
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.
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.
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