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      12-12-2011, 07:52 AM   #10
Wardman
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It's the best possible MPG setting, and the EPA....

The EPA ratings are set using the "best" possible scenarios. In order to qualify for certain breaks or not get gas guzzler fines BMW uses this setting. Auto stop/start and even comnfort mode have to be the first thing that comes on.

If you chnage that setting, the gov't doesn't come after you. But if BMW has Sport+ as the first setting, EPA would see worse MPG and the car would get some other tariffs put on it (is that part of CAFE or something like that??).

It's especially beneficial to all the NY cabbies that drive BMW's with this feature. Now they don't have to stop/start their car manually any more :-) Now if I could jsut find a cabbie driving a new f10!!

Somethng like that...
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