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Message: <blockquote data-quote="E46Fanatic" data-source="post: 209413" data-attributes="member: 81">Shucks, I missed a great get together.  Hoping to meet you jokers in the next meetup.  Btw, I took my E90 to ipoh and back over the weekend, and the car is really fabulous on the highway.  Much better high speed stability than the E46 even in stock suspension/wheel settings on the E90. My observations:1) below 3k rpms cruising the engine is soo quiet and smooth that you don't hear it at all and you're just gliding by on the highway at over 100kmh2) car is well planted and surefooted, and less supceptable to heavy crosswinds3) you don't feel the speed as much in this car as it tracking very well even in high speed and engine is so silent4) good level of steering and suspension feedback esp in high speed bends.  Also the car doesn't understeer as much when pushed through these bends.5) i finally passed my 2k kms break in milestone and took the engine to redline last night on my way to dinner.  On WOT, there is a lovely deep throated roar in the lower rpms pulling to a nice scream in the 6-7k rpm range.  The engine is has an interesting Jekyll and Hyde characteristic, as its so smooth and silent on cruising, yet brings out a lovely racey characteristic when you want it.  I noticed that most of the character and sound experience is coming from the engine rather than the exhaust area.  The M54 E46, a lot of the audible characteristics was from the exhaust area, even when cruising/driving around town.  Interesting...</blockquote>

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