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Old 07-07-2009, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Mdorphin View Post
False. The setting/button is about as useless as a fat one armed midget trying to do a cartwheel.

All it does is give a higher throttle response by remapping the throttle pedal position sensors. For example, if your using 15% of throttle w/o sport mode, in sport mode that would calculate to say 35% (made up numbers).

Of course it FEELS faster to accelerate in sport mode than w/o it....but that's about it.

It does not add any horsepower, increase torque, or do anything else to boost the car's performance. It feels faster because it takes less pedal input to push more fuel into the engine.

You are not getting any extra power. Keep dreaming
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Weasel is right. You're confusing "sport" mode shifting with the sport button on M models.

My M3 had a sport button w/ throttle remapping.

Sport mode (on the X5) thru the shifter just changes shifting parameters, allowing higher revs for a given gear before shifting.

Neither button provides more power. The E60 M5 has the P500 mode for the additional power.
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