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Old 06-17-2012, 01:32 PM   #230
Max Schnell
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Originally Posted by ashtray View Post
In my BMW, if you wanted to accelerate quickly from a stop, you needed to turn off traction control. If you didn't, it would detect wheel slip and reduce engine power making your acceleration slower than your normal acceleration. (ie, it over compensated and hitting the gas harder just made you accelerate slower). In that car, turning off the system was needed on the streets in certain circumstances.
because you know, as a BMW driver you must not lose at the merging lane drags!
No BMW ever lose at anything!
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