Newbie 4.8 M Sport owner - help pls

[autoque]

I'd say it was brave of you to purchase the 4.8 gasoline engine, considering that you are a British... Europeans almost never ever buys gasoline engines let alone 4.8 liter engine. Why didn't you go for the 3.0TT diesel? It's more frugal with fuel and has nearly matching performance...

[Muz]

only cos the 4.8 gear box is shit

[TransientWolf]

Already got the same engine in the 650 so used to shit mpg and high fuel costs.

A 12 months old 4.8 is around $14k cheaper than the equivalant diesel right now - I would have to do some very serious mileage to even get close.

[TransientWolf]

Update

Collected car today and:

1) They had done the software update and the PDC and Camera now can be shown together. Thanks Fastbuck :-)

2) The Sport button does work (or at least light up) just in daylight hard to see the light - once shaded with a hand you can see it. Haven't had it long enough to see what difference it makes to be honest - just pressed it anyway!

Thanks for all your help guys. Much appreciated.

[DawgBone]

My sport button just makes the tranny shift a littler more aggressively...I have never noticed the suspension doing anything... She drives with it in normal. I drive it in Sport mode, with ocassional slapping the gear selector over into DS mode(my favorite ). I've used manual mode, maybe a whole 3 times.

In sport mode, the LED in the button SHOULD light up green, and there SHOULD be a "S" or "Sport" icon in the instrument cluster.

I was under the assumption that with the sport package, the suspension was not adjustable. Whereas non-sport based packages had the ability to change suspension geometry...

[Christiaan]

Originally Posted by DawgBone

My sport button just makes the tranny shift a littler more aggressively...I have never noticed the suspension doing anything... She drives with it in normal. I drive it in Sport mode, with ocassional slapping the gear selector over into DS mode(my favorite ). I've used manual mode, maybe a whole 3 times.

In sport mode, the LED in the button SHOULD light up green, and there SHOULD be a "S" or "Sport" icon in the instrument cluster.

I was under the assumption that with the sport package, the suspension was not adjustable. Whereas non-sport based packages had the ability to change suspension geometry...

I thought that with the SPORT package, it included a variable suspension or something... called electronic damping control.....

[Muz]

Its called adaptive drive as an option, I have it on my E70 , and you have the sport button beside the shifter, and here's my take on it here