"Eisboch" wrote in message
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... thought you would be interested in this.

It's a standard M6, which is the coupe version of the M5 with the same
engine, SMG transmission, etc. running against a 500 hp Lamborghini
Gallardo. The M6 has two people in it (driver and cameraman). The
Lamborghini has one person only.

Video from the back seat of the BMW.

Interesting results.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/3...460127077d.htm


Watching that for the second time, I was a bit surprised by the shifting
characteristics of the SMG. I was expecting the shifts to be more quick,
more like what you might hear in an F1 car. Listening to the upshifts in
the M6, they sounded very much like a shift that would take place with a
conventional manual transmission, by a competent driver, but a driver that
was being fairly conservative and kind to the car.. Clean and precise, but
with a very noticeable drop in engine revs and corresponding drop in power
delivery during the shift, very much unlike the nearly instant shifts
without power delivery interruption that you would hear in an F1 car using
what I understand to be the same basic technology. Perhaps due to the
particular selection of the many program options of the SMG that the driver
of the M6 chose for that run? I understand that BMW is bring a conventional
manual to the M5 and M6 soon, much to the delight of the detractors of the
SMG.