Picked up the new 5401/6 (archive)

Picked up my baby Saturday morning and managed to put 650 miles on it by Sunday night. As you may have expected, I am blown away. Anyway, I thought I might share a few first impressions:

1. This car is amazingly powerful. I love the urgency with which the car responds from 50-70. Downshifting is completely optional.

2. Drives as if it were carved from a single billet of steel. It seems to know what I'm trying to do before I do - and it reacts as a natural extension of me.

3. If driven quickly from a standing start, it is difficult to shift smoothly. I freely admit that I've only been driving it for two days and that the fault probably is with my shifting technique, but I can't seem to make that 1st to 2nd shift at 3500 rpm without making everyone's head bob.

4. I should have bought this car much sooner.

I'll post pictures just as soon as we have a sunny day in Houston.

Follow Ups:

Re: difficult shifting DHoang 20:46 1/28/2001 (0)
Re: Picked up the new 5401/6 My540i 20:46 1/28/2001 (1)
- Drill out the CDV My540i 20:48 1/28/2001 (0)

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