X5 Drifting - Page 2

Michelle · #11 03-25-2008, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by PersonaNonGrata

Where is a telephone pole when you need one??? :p

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Chip · #12 03-25-2008, 11:51 PM

Hmm, fast circling... It would have been funny if he had rolled over

Thunder22 · #13 03-26-2008, 07:39 AM

I was finally bored enough to watch this, I shouldn't have. I don't know what was more pathetic, the "rapid turning in circles" or the "2 dorks "battling" in a "dance" "contest"" yikes, that's a lot of quotation marks.... ugh.

I think we've now seen the high water mark on the Dork O' Meter.

bravo.

AzNMpower32 · #14 03-26-2008, 12:59 PM

I made a mistake by wasting my time on those two videos as well.

It would have been interesting if the X5 understeered into the bushes.

mrkbbd · #15 03-26-2008, 01:56 PM

that's not drifting, I think the only way to get the x5 to drift is to get up speed in a straight line and throw it into a turn and accelerate, there is no way to do it from a dead stop just making circles

X5CA · #16 03-27-2008, 12:45 AM

DSC was off . X5 wont drift any more than that

PersonaNonGrata · #17 03-27-2008, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by X5CA

DSC was off . X5 wont drift any more than that

Interesting. Did you turn off the DSC?

illuminum · #18 03-27-2008, 01:52 PM

even with DSC off, isn't there still a very low level of tracion control that's still active? I remember reading about this a long while back.

AzNMpower32 · #19 03-27-2008, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by illuminum

even with DSC off, isn't there still a very low level of tracion control that's still active? I remember reading about this a long while back.

I don't know, this might depend on the year.

xDrive and ABS are permanent (unless they fail). I know on the X3, based off the E46, allows you to shut the whole thing down. I suspect now with BMW's DTC mode, you can turn the whole thing off as well.

The best way to get a drift in a big heavy car like an X would be take it down mountain roads. There, you have more speed to work with. I know with the X3, if you try too hard in a parking lot, all you get is understeer because the front wheels are underdriven. But with a proper set of mountain curves about 80 km/h to play with, it's a totally different story.

mrkbbd · #20 03-27-2008, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by AzNMpower32

I don't know, this might depend on the year.

xDrive and ABS are permanent (unless they fail). I know on the X3, based off the E46, allows you to shut the whole thing down. I suspect now with BMW's DTC mode, you can turn the whole thing off as well.

The best way to get a drift in a big heavy car like an X would be take it down mountain roads. There, you have more speed to work with. I know with the X3, if you try too hard in a parking lot, all you get is understeer because the front wheels are underdriven. But with a proper set of mountain curves about 80 km/h to play with, it's a totally different story.

Drifting and sliding are two completely different things, plus it's not that intelligent/safe to do that on a mountain road

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