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Good stuff, must be good to purchase a car that lives up to expectations. Out of interest, is the BMW is a better and more enjoyable drive than your recent VW? Only ask cause BMW have always marketed as drivers cars where as VW seem to be trying to manufacture that. Excluding the Mk1 GTi they never really had "feel".
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So much better, in every way. VW was nice, and very well made. Drove ok. Was nippy for a diesel. It was nicer to drive than the comparable golf GTD that i test drove, but still not a sports car. I think the GTI's and R's are a different kettle of fish though.
I much prefer my BMW to the R i test drove. It actually feels like a proper drivers car, in Sports + mode it is bat out of hell fast, actually a little bit scary (it's more than fast enough for regular driving in comfort mode!). I'd love to get it on a track sometime with the traction control turned off!
Had a good tussle with a Cayman GTS on the M4 yesterday, accelerating out of a long 50mph average speed check section of roadworks and kept up all the way to 125 where he backed off. then had a good little game of cat and mouse with him. It's very fast. I didn't expect to be able to keep up with him.
I'm sure things will change when winter comes along with wet dirty roads though. It may become somewhat of a chore to drive in the winter months. We shall see.
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Did my first decent run in the M135 yesterday. Bristol to Crystal Palace and back, with around 2.5 hours of that in stop start going through london. Mostly cruising between 80-90. Returned an average mpg of 39, just over half a tank. Pretty happy with that for a 3ltr 320hp car!
First opportunity to have a good play around with the iDrive sytsem and all the other interior stuff. Everything just works so well. The driving positions is just endlessly adjustable.
Properly happy with it.