While I applaud the idea, for the money you're asking I would prefer to go with the Tesla option. I think it's worth about $500
Ken - 3 years ago
All I know is I paid 10k for upgrades and this should be included. Just call me a consumer who doesn't know any better while everyone preaches the reasons it is not included, like it is my fault. Quite frankly, they should have told me what upgrades are not included for my 10k. As far as I am concerned if they are not touching the engine it is a software update that I paid for.
Eugene Leeds - 4 years ago
Article is leaving out a lot. The reality is it brings an AWD from 3.9 to 3.4. It’s a massive difference. Also, the added much more power to the front motor but actually decreased it a bit in the rear. Myself, and everyone else who has purchased it is absolutely blown away.
Greg - 4 years ago
I’ve had my M3 LRDM for 15 months and am almost through the second set of tires (~20K miles). Already guilty of having too much fun at stop lights. Can only imagine how much worse it can get with even more torque.
JG Collins - 4 years ago
Francesco, no, that's incorrect. The 5% boosts did not enhance the acceleration by nearly that much. You're thinking that it's a proportional relationship between peak power and acceleration, but it never was. The cars did get modestly quicker, say ~0.2s overall. That's why they're listed at 4.4s but most drivers report 4.1-4.2s. This upgrade is a full 0.5s, and moreoever, the power boosts helped acceleration from, say, 30 or 50mph, not off the line. This will entirely directed toward acceleration both at higher speeds and off the line. You'll have less of a ease into speed off the line like you did before the upgrade (or put another way, the torque you feel off the line will feel closer to the torque you feel once you're already moving, instead of more gentle has the AWD had been before).
Kevin - 4 years ago
This is way cheaper than a turbo set up. I would expect to pay a lot more for an equivalent performance gain in an ICE car. If you bought a 2018 car from a traditional auto maker, and they found a better way to do things for the 2020 model year, you would have to buy a whole car if you wanted the gains...Regardless of whether it was planned obsolescence or legitimate software improvements.
That being said, I still feel like I should get the update for free
Francesco - 4 years ago
Is this really a boost innperformance to those numbers? Since I got my car i have received two 5% upgraders that would equal to approx 0.46sec. And going from the 0-100 4.6 to 4.1.. exactly what the want me to pay $2000 for. So what were those upgrades for and why dont they show in the specs ob the homepage?
While I applaud the idea, for the money you're asking I would prefer to go with the Tesla option. I think it's worth about $500
All I know is I paid 10k for upgrades and this should be included. Just call me a consumer who doesn't know any better while everyone preaches the reasons it is not included, like it is my fault. Quite frankly, they should have told me what upgrades are not included for my 10k. As far as I am concerned if they are not touching the engine it is a software update that I paid for.
Article is leaving out a lot. The reality is it brings an AWD from 3.9 to 3.4. It’s a massive difference. Also, the added much more power to the front motor but actually decreased it a bit in the rear. Myself, and everyone else who has purchased it is absolutely blown away.
I’ve had my M3 LRDM for 15 months and am almost through the second set of tires (~20K miles). Already guilty of having too much fun at stop lights. Can only imagine how much worse it can get with even more torque.
Francesco, no, that's incorrect. The 5% boosts did not enhance the acceleration by nearly that much. You're thinking that it's a proportional relationship between peak power and acceleration, but it never was. The cars did get modestly quicker, say ~0.2s overall. That's why they're listed at 4.4s but most drivers report 4.1-4.2s. This upgrade is a full 0.5s, and moreoever, the power boosts helped acceleration from, say, 30 or 50mph, not off the line. This will entirely directed toward acceleration both at higher speeds and off the line. You'll have less of a ease into speed off the line like you did before the upgrade (or put another way, the torque you feel off the line will feel closer to the torque you feel once you're already moving, instead of more gentle has the AWD had been before).
This is way cheaper than a turbo set up. I would expect to pay a lot more for an equivalent performance gain in an ICE car. If you bought a 2018 car from a traditional auto maker, and they found a better way to do things for the 2020 model year, you would have to buy a whole car if you wanted the gains...Regardless of whether it was planned obsolescence or legitimate software improvements.
That being said, I still feel like I should get the update for free
Is this really a boost innperformance to those numbers? Since I got my car i have received two 5% upgraders that would equal to approx 0.46sec. And going from the 0-100 4.6 to 4.1.. exactly what the want me to pay $2000 for. So what were those upgrades for and why dont they show in the specs ob the homepage?