Drove my boss's E63...what's the big deal?
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Drove my boss's E63...what's the big deal?
Yesterday I had the chance to drive my boss's 2010 E63 for about an hour...alone...so yeah, I wanted to see how it compared to my 05' E55.
It's just a completely different animal. It's a fast car, but it doesn't FEEL fast. I found it to be sluggish in traffic. I would see a gap in traffic that my 55 would easily make, but by the time the 63 would decide what gear to use and get into the rpm range where it makes power, the gap was sometimes gone. It definitely takes more planning in traffic. The 55 is SO much more immediate in it's response. I was thinking about buying this car from him in the next year or two, but it just isn't what I've come to love about my E55.
It was strange, while I didn't feel that it was very fast, I would jump into it and look down to see almost ridiculous numbers (mph) for what I felt like the car was actually doing.
Hands down, my preference is the E55.
It's just a completely different animal. It's a fast car, but it doesn't FEEL fast. I found it to be sluggish in traffic. I would see a gap in traffic that my 55 would easily make, but by the time the 63 would decide what gear to use and get into the rpm range where it makes power, the gap was sometimes gone. It definitely takes more planning in traffic. The 55 is SO much more immediate in it's response. I was thinking about buying this car from him in the next year or two, but it just isn't what I've come to love about my E55.
It was strange, while I didn't feel that it was very fast, I would jump into it and look down to see almost ridiculous numbers (mph) for what I felt like the car was actually doing.
Hands down, my preference is the E55.
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Having owned and driven both 55's and 63's the easiest way to describe them for me is like this. The 55's tell you they want to be driven fast and the 63's, you need to tell them that you want to go fast. 55's are eager and always want to "go" but the 63's only come to life above 4000 rpm. Now if I can only have a 55k with a .9 trans 
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its mainly the power delivery - having had both the 55 is like an animal trying to get out of its cage while the 63 is more refined - once you put the pedal down the power is so linear it just keeps pulling and pulling in any given gear. so much more refined on the delivery of power -
love both just don't miss all the gremlins of the 55 - and i was dying to get a wagon so I'm a bit biased
love both just don't miss all the gremlins of the 55 - and i was dying to get a wagon so I'm a bit biased
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The 7spd trans. adapts and changes moods very quickly. Hard to drive it hard all the time so the trans. goes to granny mode. The e63 can be very quick when the trans. is in beast mode. Fastest car I've owned and I've had Porsche, BMW and American V8's. That being said, there's no supercharger....
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The 7spd trans. adapts and changes moods very quickly. Hard to drive it hard all the time so the trans. goes to granny mode. The e63 can be very quick when the trans. is in beast mode. Fastest car I've owned and I've had Porsche, BMW and American V8's. That being said, there's no supercharger....
Just my 2 cents and I'm not an engineer, just my laymen interpretation.
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Great replies. I don't think he drives the car hard enough so it may be in more of a granny mode. Also, I didn't drive it hard, just fast...it's not mine and I respect both him and his car so in all fairness I'm sure I'm more aggressive with my own car. As far as being refined, it's WAY more refined than the E55.
I'm also sure I'm biased.
I'm also sure I'm biased.
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I love both, they're just DIFFERENT. So damn different even when the E63 is a W211 as well. It's crazy, I just cannot get over how different they feel. Like a completely different car. I love the E63, have driven it many times, feels like a tight sports car. When you kickdown it pushes you into the seat pretty good and the shifts are pretty firm and feel very nice. The 55 is like riding a tornado, it just WOOOOOOOOSHHHS you forward. The E55 feels more like a plane to be honest (no joke) whereas the E63 feels like a fast car.
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I love both, they're just DIFFERENT. So damn different even when the E63 is a W211 as well. It's crazy, I just cannot get over how different they feel. Like a completely different car. I love the E63, have driven it many times, feels like a tight sports car. When you kickdown it pushes you into the seat pretty good and the shifts are pretty firm and feel very nice. The 55 is like riding a tornado, it just WOOOOOOOOSHHHS you forward. The E55 feels more like a plane to be honest (no joke) whereas the E63 feels like a fast car.
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