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Originally Posted by e90 awd
Just ordered a non turbo 328XI never liked turbo's because of that except the vw 2.0 fsi motor that motor has no lag at all not worth the extra 6k for lag
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Having driven the 2.0t extensively I can say that it in fact HAS lag and it is much more than the N54 with lag. I have driven the N54 with and without lag in a variety of cars and will say that before the software there was 0 lag in the car, the drive-by-wire was at fault and not the engine; with the software there was a flat spot of lag that varied from car to car.
2.0l 4 cylinder engine with a larger turbo has much more lag than a I6 with odd cylinders powering much smaller turbos (common sense, most would agree).
What I am working on now is seeing if in fact the 2009 has different hardware, as I was originally tipped to a few months ago and was the cause of the EPA delay.... if so I wonder if BMW is going to have a lot of turbos being replaced on pre-2009 cars or at least waste gates....