Originally Posted by Deontologist
Originally Posted by edyvw
What is teh point? If BMW has "inertia" problems, where it is coming from? Tell us which part of BMW 340i F30 with B58 engine or G20 with B58 engine creates "inertia." Otherwise, what is the point of your argument? Or, if B58 engine with chain is in the back to address those (nonexistent) issues, tell us what creates that "inertia" in F30 335i or E90 335i with N55 engine? Enlighten us!
Why are you so invested in defending the honor of BMW?
Can you please explain what's so "perfect" about 50/50 weight distribution? Many sports cars do just fine without the "perfect" 50/50 distribution; the 911 is an example.
Also, you don't know how car design works. There are no inertia "problems" with modern BMWs per se. It's all on a continuum; the optimization of the center of inertia isn't a right/wrong issue. There's a spectrum, on which one extreme would be a car that has 5000 pound ballasts on the bumpers, with the other extreme being a point mass. Car engineers today are interested in saving literal grams per component. There are few ways to drop 20 pounds here and 40 pounds there and 30 pounds here and 100 pounds there. There's a reason you pay a $20,000 premium for, say, a Lexus RC F, which drops about 18 pounds over the standard RC F, and uses a smaller A/C compressor to shave less than a pound of weight. Weight savings, and by extension, optimizing mass, mass distribution, and center of inertia (all related), are hard to come by. Moving the chain around doesn't seem like much to a layman, but even fractions of a pound and the location of the weight/mass are all worth fighting for.
Again, read my previous posts. You have no idea what you talking about.
Lexus RC is really not good example because for class where it plays it is too heavy. Again, tell us what ballast on bumpers have to do with BMW? This is topic about BMW B58 engine not Lexus or microwaves like Camry. Tell us where is that mass located in BMW G20 or F30 or E90? Ony thing clear here is that you tied yourself into knot and trying to get out of discussion as providing some argument.
I asked you about BMW and you talking about some appliance FWD cars or attempts of sport cars like RC F. Only clear here is that you have no idea about BMW. But, if I need some ballasts when doing some work on a house, I know who to ask.