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Old 03-23-2011, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by BCA View Post
I had adaptive drive on my X (which was just a 3.0) and rarely used it. It did improve the handling but the car seemed to handle just fine without it.
well you never were able to turn it off if you had it so it was always on. The sport button only adjusted suspension stiffness and in that case I couldn't even tell the difference there. The only real way to know is to drive both with and without AD cars back to back.

That said, I did it a few weeks apart and the difference wasn't earth-shattering from what I recall, but I can tell you in my AD car, I take sharp-turn on/off-ramps without even having to brake - there is a lot of g-force but little to no body roll. The first time I felt that I was floored at how it was possible (coming from a regular SUV from 1995). I didn't really get to do that in my non-AD test drive.

Everything is very stiff as-is - so go test drive both and only you can see if you care.
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