Bye Bye Gas Guzzler Tax
03-07-2007, 09:08 PM
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03-07-2007, 09:27 PM
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Guys, the GG tax was only on SMG and 6sp. Is it really gone on a manual tranny MY08 550i.
03-08-2007, 02:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Hormazd' post='400053' date='Mar 8 2007, 01:27 AM
Guys, the GG tax was only on SMG and 6sp. Is it really gone on a manual tranny MY08 550i.
I thought that I've read in some of the LCI marketing literature that BMW has installed a dashboard light indicating optimum shift times. Well, if anyone else out there is as old as I am, you'll remember that that was a trick done in the 70s and 80s to push drivers to upshift early in order to increase gas mileage. It helped automakers get a better "Corporate Average Fuel Economy" or CAFE - and we enthusiast used to disable the light 'cause it drove us crazy (no pun intended). Anyway, such a light may be the basis for the improved mileage rating.
Does anyone else recall reading about such a light in the new 5er?
03-08-2007, 02:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Hormazd' post='400053' date='Mar 8 2007, 01:27 AM
Guys, the GG tax was only on SMG and 6sp. Is it really gone on a manual tranny MY08 550i.
03-08-2007, 05:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Hormazd' post='400053' date='Mar 7 2007, 10:27 PM
Guys, the GG tax was only on SMG and 6sp. Is it really gone on a manual tranny MY08 550i.
vegastrashed, EMBC, and Rudy all have SMG
That's why they kept talking about it
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Originally Posted by Hormazd' post='400053' date='Mar 8 2007, 01:27 AM
Guys, the GG tax was only on SMG and 6sp. Is it really gone on a manual tranny MY08 550i.
03-08-2007, 06:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Road Runner' post='400152' date='Mar 8 2007, 10:06 AM
On the manual MY08, yes it's gone. Not sure about the SMG.
03-08-2007, 06:16 AM
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Originally Posted by katheikia' post='400155' date='Mar 8 2007, 10:10 AM
There is no SMG :'(
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Originally Posted by Hormazd' post='400053' date='Mar 7 2007, 10:27 PM
Guys, the GG tax was only on SMG and 6sp.
Yup we know.
03-08-2007, 06:21 AM
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Originally Posted by hinckley' post='400105' date='Mar 8 2007, 03:01 AM
I don't think any of us is really sure (and I've got one on order!), but there's another possible explanation for the better mileage rating and elimination of the GG tax.
I thought that I've read in some of the LCI marketing literature that BMW has installed a dashboard light indicating optimum shift times. Well, if anyone else out there is as old as I am, you'll remember that that was a trick done in the 70s and 80s to push drivers to upshift early in order to increase gas mileage. It helped automakers get a better "Corporate Average Fuel Economy" or CAFE - and we enthusiast used to disable the light 'cause it drove us crazy (no pun intended). Anyway, such a light may be the basis for the improved mileage rating.
Does anyone else recall reading about such a light in the new 5er?
I thought that I've read in some of the LCI marketing literature that BMW has installed a dashboard light indicating optimum shift times. Well, if anyone else out there is as old as I am, you'll remember that that was a trick done in the 70s and 80s to push drivers to upshift early in order to increase gas mileage. It helped automakers get a better "Corporate Average Fuel Economy" or CAFE - and we enthusiast used to disable the light 'cause it drove us crazy (no pun intended). Anyway, such a light may be the basis for the improved mileage rating.
Does anyone else recall reading about such a light in the new 5er?