My thoughts:
The car is faster than I thought it would be, and I am ordering a tune already for it. The thing just goes where you point it, with little or no lag when you step on it. The 300ftlbs torque starts so low (at 1500rpm) that it's like a train, and it steadily pulls up to 5500, before slightly starts to depress you from your seat back, you downshift and you're pinned again.
If it had a fault, it did push, ever so slightly, in hard and fast corners, but you can do one of two things... throttle oversteer it, which it does very easily, or give it some more negative camber up front, which I already did, also with a H&R Sport drop. The thing just plain grips, even with the 215's up front. The eLSD seems to work pretty darned well, and I could easily do donuts in it, which the e90 cannot do with it's open diff. It can also squeeze throttle on in corners and make the back step out, both wheels a spinnin'.
The brakes are incredible too. R&T just tested the car, and recorded 60-0 in 102feet. That's just plain dental-ripping-out insane.
Here's a pic of it before I dropped it (sorry, it's a bit big):
and here's a couple after I dropped it on Monday:
If any of you get a chance to, most dealers have a black 135i available for test drives.. the only thing is that it's steptronic.. but go check it out.
I cannot wait to get this out on the track and run it at autocross. The 332ti was classed as a mod car, and it couldn't compete that well against completely prepared M3s that well. This car is more reasonably classed.
It's fun to hop out of one car and drive the other, back to back.. they both have such great driving abilities. It's strange to see how much the marque has progressed in a decade.
Sorry for the longish post.
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