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Originally Posted by schnell330i
yeah like said above, the 750 definitely didnt have the anti roll stabilization like the merc did. Ive driven the s550 with abc before and thought that it handled very unnaturally (in a turn, it boosts up the outside part of the car and hunkers down the inside, which I think feels really weird; you can clearly see this in the slalom part of the video in the first post, and they commented a bit on it as being "counter-intuitive)
Here is edmunds testing a sports pack, ARS equipped 750i (notice how there is much less roll, yet it still responds to the lateral forces naturally)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqSc-encjNY
gotta love the quote "the 750 has S63 AMG performance for less than S550 price"  |
Hmmm, interesting. The same guys tested the 750i and 750Li (obviously at different times) and got some rather strange results. What I mean is that they clocked the 750i going 0-60mph in 5.2 seconds (as per the link that schnell330i posted) and the 750Li doing this in 4.8 seconds (as per the link that 750_ooomph posted)?!?
The 750i should have come in with lower numbers. I guess the test times are due to the way they tested the cars and probably wasn't done the exact same way. If I recall correctly, in the video clip where they tested the 750Li they mentioned that they turned traction control off and that they manually shifted through the gears to get that time. So I assume that for the 750i they let the automatic do the shifting for them as that time is pretty much what BMW quoted for this model.
Nonetheless, still amazing numbers considering the size and weight of these cars!