Re: BMW 325ix 4 wheel drive ?

[leveckis@icd.teradyne.com (Tom Leveckis)]

>  About this 325ix, I heard a lot of good things and very little bad. That 
>   could be a little bias coming from a BMW owner(535i). Witht he ix, you lose 
>   a little straight line acceleration and have more drivetrain noise than a 
>   regualr 325. I know it uses a viscous central diff -about all I know.

> The only real thing I remember thinking at the time was that the system
> seemed like an afterthought kinda grafted onto the base car, and not
> "designed in", like the Audi.

Not as much designing needed when the car was originally rear wheel drive.

TVL