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Originally Posted by Red Bread
The 8S is nice for efficiency, but doesn't appear to help performance. E90 N55 cars with the 6s were as fast or faster than the marginally lighter F30 with the N55.
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Performance is part of what it brings to the table, including being faster. It's 2.5 kg lighter, shifts are only 200ms and it can shift non-sequentially.
http://www.zf.com/corporate/en_de/pr...enjoyment.html
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Originally Posted by Red Bread
And an X3 is 300 pounds heavier than an E84 and 400 pounds heavier than the F31 with the N20. If only we got a rwd F31 with the N55/B58.
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The N55 more then makes up for the 400 pound weight difference with the F31 328i and by BMWs own numbers, both the X3 35i and E84 X1 35i both do 0-60 in 5.3 seconds, despite being 300 pounds heavier, could have something to do with that ZF8HP.
You do have to deal with a bit more bulk, but you also gain a lot of useable space as well. Just depends on what you want.