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I drove this car today. Lots of fun. Luxury sports roadster is what this is. I have a Cayman S, and the power and handling are not as good as the Cayman, (few cars can handle as well as a Cayman S), but it was fun. To be a more serious performance machine, it will need an "M" treatment, although I have heard no M for this car. The fit and finish are great, the Ivory White Nappa Leather is like butter. Retractable hardtop is fantastic, one second a quiet coupe, 15 secs later, an air and sun in your face cruising machine.
It is definately getting up into Porsche territory pricewise, at just over $60K. There were little details I like, like the trunk lid roundel doubling as the trunk opening latch. The rear windows recline in roadster mode. The round guages, round and A/C controls.
Performance wise it will scoot, the twin turbo model probably in the 0-60 5.3 to 5.4 sec range. It did not feel like sub 5. But hard to tell for sure.
The 7 speed steptronic, while not bad, is no match for a manual. I am a little disappointed it doesn't have the DCT as an option.
Handling wise was typical BMW, a bit of understeer, easily brought to neutral with the throttle.
The style is something that will probably polarize folks, either you like it or you hate it. I for one liked it.
Like I said at the beginning, a very nice luxury sport 2 seat coupe/roadster.
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