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Originally Posted by adc100
LOL..I beg to differ. It has a reputation of being slow but as some above stated. "Breake it in fast and it will always be fast)
I seriously don't know where you are coming from. You put the pedal all the way down and and it hits 6000 rpm at about 47 mph..then it just redlines/shifts etc etc. Faster than you are allowed to go. It shifts between 5100 rpm and 6100rpm
Try it. And get back to me. The XT is the wife's car and a while back I really rung it out with her in it. She said "I didn't know this had a turbo"..OK she never drives the XT more than 50mph 
lol you have never driven one with the FA20 250HP Turbo. hint its quicker than the 2.0 Turbo X3. Ask me how I know. Second thought..don't. This engine is rated in Wards 10 best engines 3 times in the last 6 years. No BMW engine has earned that honor. |
Even when I drive the wifes Crosstrek and have to hit the happy pedal hard to get over quick, on ramps etc., the CVT will shift in the 4-5 range and those are rare experiences.
I assume the manual is geared differently on the Crosstrek like anything else, so that could be a possibility, but even so I cannot figure the point of redlining a Crosstrek to 6500 rpm.