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Old 05-26-2016, 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by imalabil View Post
Yea I miss our E53 but stuff was just breaking faster than I could keep up. And the family lost confidence in it's reliability with my son away at college. And just after I had fixed (or had fixed) most things. It was a 3.0, which, aside from it's numerous oil leaks and crappy PCC system, ran pretty good. Throttle response from a stop was surely better than in the E70.
I can't speak about throttle response compared to the 3.0. I had the 4.4 which was very good. The 3.5 with direct fuel injection and Valvetronic is noticeably faster and instantaneous.
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