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Originally Posted by N54Yankee
James said pretty much what I was about to. Engines with large displacement and more importantly longer stroke make wonderful TQ. Even a stellar plant like the E46's M3 I6 masterpiece makes marginal TQ and only makes it towards the top of the band. Big bore displacement and long stroke is what you need for that asphalt Shredding TQ or stick with FI which gives you that flat wide curve of TQ most of us love. Now if you can get Displacement, stroke and FI you're smiling ear to ear.
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Take a E30 325i with an M20 and manual transmission in it vs. a F30 N20 auto down a back country road with elevation changes and turns and tell me which car is better to drive...
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."