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Originally Posted by pokerface
on an AWD vehicle putting the car in park would lock the front wheels too though. In the video it didn't.  |
Notice how he said 'no locking differentials'
That includes no locking center differential.
Which in BMW's case is a simple transfer case, not a classic differential.
Which means that the front wheels are 'limp', unless the ECU tells the transfer case to engage the front.
Only the rear wheels are connected to the transmission all of the time - which is why the rear doesn't turn when he's in park.
BMW's AWD implementation isn't what I would call, off-road-oriented.
It's more for the basic soccer mom - afraid to drive up a shallow grade when she heard on the radio that 'there is ice out there'.
-scheherazade
P.S. Those hills were not that steep... I've gone up way steeper (and sloppier/wetter/slipperier) hills in a crappy 20 year old F150 4x4 with neigh bald tyres.
I will agree, though, that the LR was going faster before the hill.
The tyres are sandard equipment. If the car can't off-road "as-equipped", it's got no business being advertised as any 'utility' vehicle.
It's an "SUV-Styled Sedan".
But we all already knew this.
This video only pokes fun at the concept of building a car to "do X" but to "look like Y". Which IMHO is a perfectly fine way to design a car. Give people what they want.
-scheherazade