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Originally Posted by The X Men
Here is a good article about hydrudic vs electric steering, Car and driver put 11 test engineer with years of experience in a blind drive test of two F10 equipped with hydrudic and electric steering. These are the same engineers that complains about the electric steering every chance they get. Guess what the result was:
http://www.caranddriver.com/features...n-test-feature |
Interesting test.
What I've read about the electric system BMW now implements is that everyone prefers it over the hydraulic system because it's so much more precise. The only downfall of of the electric system is feedback, but other than that, the electric system is superior.
Now, that test concludes that there really isn't a difference between the two but I'm willing to bet the hydraulic system isn't a carry over from another car so by default, the steering is already "flawed" or doesn't feel the same as previous applications or setups (see: F10 M5; it uses a hydraulic setup but some say it has a similar feeling, the weight is there but there is less feedback). So while those test drivers feel that the differences are so minimal, it doesn't prove that there isn't something wrong or missing from the new electric steering.
All we can discuss is that from reading other reviews, Audi and Porsche seem to have a good/better system that provides the closest feeling to a hydraulic system (doesn't mean it's perfect, it just the closest at the moment) than the system BMW currently so there's obviously room for improvement.