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      03-25-2020, 09:14 AM   #41
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You may very well be right here, but pretty much every car these days, including Porsche, has a steering-by-wire electronic setup. I think tuning the electronic feedback probably can improve the feel, which I assume can be done via SW. I think it's just that BMW is either not prioritizing it enough, or comfort is now the overriding characteristic over all else at BMW.
This is not true. Most cars use an electrically boosted rack-pinion setup. Porsche and BMW have no cars in their lineup that use steer-by-wire. In fact extremely few cars in general actually use steer-by-wire setups.
Infiniti Q50 sedan comes to mind.
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