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Originally posted by DSMRoadster
The paddles shift as quick as you can blink an eye.
Well, like everything else, that reminds me of a story.....was out looking for cars for the wife. She liked the BMW Z4(? I think it was). Went all the way down to Jersey (because of course the wife HAD to have a white on black). When we got there, the car turned out to be a piddle shift (obviously, I don't like them). So we took the car out with a young salesman and I proceeded to give him my car background and my opinion on the speed of the paddle shift (because he was giving me the car salesman speal about the speed of the shift etc.).
Oh course the arrogant postion of you can't shift faster came out of his mouth and the challenge was on. Well, after finding an empty industrial parking lot, we discovered that, indeed, I could shift faster than the piddle shift. In addition we discovered a few more things;
Salesmen get nervous if you talk in the middle of doing 50mph drifts while down shifting.
The piddle shift was even slower while shifting during a corner.
A salesman saying "go ahead take it through its paces, I'm not scared". Doesn't mean exactly that 
Heh heh, yeah, all fun stuff, but seriously, the piddle shift on that one was, IMO, pretty slow. Maybe she was defective, I don't know. But it was fun anyway.
Now back your Beemer; I always loved them for cruise with a mixture of high performance. Nice looking car.Captain Caveman
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