Driving techniques?

[ravenheart]

Hello all

A few days ago my wife and I decided to have some good safe fun in our X5 4.4, so we went to a big empty privately owned parking lot - and fun as it was I was a little disapointed as well - I timed us for 7.5 secs in 0-60 runs - and while that is by no means awful - it is more than the 6.9 sec time BMW says the 4.4 can do.

We also tried to slide the car - now - the X5 is a nice AWD car, but no rally or sportscar - lets face it - the power to weight ratio in the X5 is pretty bad, so with 8.5 inch wide tires I naturally thought it would be a wasted gesture - but to my surprise (and obvious ignorance) it actually could loose grip and toss the back some when you really really wanted it to, and as such we managed to leave a considerable amount of our tires on the lot (I Wish I had brought a camera).

Now all of this brings me to a point - neither me or my wife are master-drivers, and most of the time we were trying to experiment to see what worked. Now - I can imagine that people here know a great deal more about driving than me - so - what techniques can you apply in the X5 to make it do stuff? and how do you get the best 0-60 times?

I'll start off with linking to a 2-part video on youtube.com (I havent tried these techniques in the X)

Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=nrN4ciLsG...4%20techniques
Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=QcIqn8tNR...4%20techniques