Parking and Top Speed

[Riley2323]

Parking the G90 is still tricky for me after a couple months….embarrassed to admit:
1. 4 wheel steering really changes the angles and the timing of getting to the angles.
2. You have to relearn years of practice and timing.
3. I haven’t parallel parked that much but my first couple attempts were embarrassing. Again the angles and timing need a complete reprogramming from years of experience with two wheel steering.
4. The hood is long and deceiving, and I have activated the emergency braking several times with just head first generic parking in multi level parking garage for work. Scares the hell out of you.
5. I find that I have to straighten out the car more than I would like to admit with simple head on parking. Again 4 wheel steering just increases maneuverability in very short distances!
6. I am not at the point of whipping this thing into any parking spots and being perfectly centered with regularity yet.
7. Whipped into a spot Saturday with a forward parallel park, and scuffed the rim. I was furious! Had some social lubrication in my system and got a little frisky with my parking acumen that just doesn’t translate with the 4 wheel steering. That tires rim protector had some damage already…will get a new rim when I get new front tires. Found brand new OEM rims for 300-ish and free shipping at Minnesota rim company.
8. If you take your time these issues above go away, obviously?
9. Car still amazes me!

Top Speed:

Wish I had a recording on Saturday afternoon. Got Into a pissing contest on a long 3 lane rural uphill beautiful highway stretch, location details omitted to protect the innocent. Was going roughly a 100mph uphill only a few cars for traffic. BMW 5 series came up from behind and wanted to show his stuff.

We had reached a 2-3 mile long plateau before the next uphill stretch and he decided to blow me away on the far right lane. I am in the far left lane with the empty center lane in between. The drag race was on. He was at 120mph when I then hit 130mph and pulled away and he gave up.

The seven series is the competition!

Just a nice spurt of 130mph and it had plenty more…would have made a nice viral short video with shots of the odometer, the BMW to the right, back to the odometer and tach, forward shot of the empty 3 lanes, back to the 5 series BMW eating dust and giving up demoralized; Toby Keith I am as good once as I ever was for the music.

 

[Mdpresco]

Yes, timing the 4-wheel steering changes things! The turning radius is so much shorter than expected. So maybe find an empty parking lot and practice watching the screen. Do you have your mirrors set to tilt down when in reverse? It takes getting used to.

Not sure how dependable the engine is (they don't make them like they used to), I have wondered about "hot-rodding" the G90. Do you drive it hard frequently? 400+ horsepower from a E-SC 3.5L is a little scary in my old school experience.
3-4K on the tach, OK.
At the 5,800 redline?

 

[Riley2323]

Yes, timing the 4-wheel steering changes things! The turning radius is so much shorter than expected. So maybe find an empty parking lot and practice watching the screen. Do you have your mirrors set to tilt down when in reverse? It takes getting used to.

Not sure how dependable the engine is (they don't make them like they used to), I have wondered about "hot-rodding" the G90. Do you drive it hard frequently? 400+ horsepower from a E-SC 3.5L is a little scary in my old school experience.
3-4K on the tach, OK.
At the 5,800 redline?

Or I can just start using the auto park religiously, which I did test in an empty parking lot.

I thought about the implications of that speed on the motor, honestly I bet low RPMs in too high a gear are more harmful than high RPMs in a proper gear.

I do drive the G90 hard occasionally. I often floor it in Sport Mode, and I am usually pushing 90 on the interstates with Waze up. That 30 second spurt of 130MPH never made me think I was pushing the edge of the car, but rather pushing the edge of socially acceptable behavior and pushing the edge for jail time!

Not too many people you can share that story with in life when you are over 40.

 

[Riley2323]

Do you have your mirrors set to tilt down when in reverse?

Just learned this only works with mirror switch pointing to left or right, but not centered.

My anal retentiveness killing a nice feature!