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Originally Posted by Ilyam5
Another interesting point for this debate is - how much flexibility one really needs. All the buttons and modes included in modern cars make it tunable but not very user friendly and convenient.
Just give us sport BMW steering feel - no buttons
Sport suspension - no modes.
Proper brakes - no adjustments. (yep new M8 now has adjustable brake feel - go figure)
For me if i have these adjustments - i tend leave the car in one setting - usually comfort and do not bother/forget to change - so next time you fly into the ramp - you go oh sh... - where is the steering feel and why am i leaning so much. To change it on the fly all the time - is very inconvenient.
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I think about where I'll be driving when I get into the car, and select the appropriate mode before embarking on my drive. Then I just leave it there for the entire drive. I rarely switch back and forth. Generally, I put it in sport mode right after starting the car, unless I know I'll be in bumper to bumper traffic for most of my trip. If I was in traffic, but I m about to drive on some open roads, I'll go to sport or sport+, but rarely do I go from sport back to comfort. If the f3* offered passive sport suspension with xdrive I would have been perfectly satisfied with that over the adaptive. As it was though, adaptive msport was the only way to get acceptably stiff suspension with xdrive cars.
I don't mind the adaptive suspension either though. It offers acceptably stiff suspension in sport or sport+, and it only requires half a second to hit the drive mode switch after starting the car. If one cares about driving dynamics it becomes habit like adjusting the climate control or turning on the music or whatever.