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Ok, your a little too defensive of your favorite brand, lighten up man. No one is getting hurt. I only posted one link in this thread, just one.

me defensive, maybe but you are way too agressive against BMW so that even out.

Ok, so here's the quote from the link you posted:

Handling, despite the occasional flex in the chassis, is excellent.

Lordy me! It sounds as though the 6er has a REAL SERIOUS PROBLEM.

Getting back on topic, Jag shouldn't throw stones in glass houses. The 6er is more powerful, less expensive and trounces it in virtually every quantifiable measure.

In the end, the XK will justify itself to those who love the look and trappings of a British coupe. I'll admit - the impression I got sitting down in the cabin was very similar to the feeling I got in Aston DB9. Certainly not a bad thing. Those sold on the car's front-end styling will eat up the car's curves, which look every bit like a true exotic.

So that makes us equally guilty, we need a germancarzone Judge and jury, The hammers down.

yep, you got that right

Have you ever experienced any body flex on any cars? I'm not even familiar with what that actually is (maybe because I haven't driven hard enough). I'm just saying that the 6er isn't going to fall apart as soon as you take a corner.

Well, I'm not sure if it's exactly what they mean, but I can experience body flex when I drive off a cambered road and on to a sloping driveway at an acute angle (ie. not straight on to the driveway). The torsion of, say, the right front wheel going up the driveway, the left rear wheel being on the high side of the camber, and the left front and right rear wheels being on the low part of the camber (ie. about in the gutter) sometimes makes things creak in the body.

FYI?

Anyhow, I don't mind too much. If I buy a convertible that isn't made out to be a full on sports car, I don't expect so much out of it. A little flex isn't going to harm me.

"Body Flex is a lack of rigidity in a motor vehicle's chassis. It is often something to be avoided by car manufacturers as higher levels of body flex is a sign of structural weakness, and means that the vehicle's suspension cannot work as efficiently - the body takes up some of the 'slack', rather than the parts of the car which were specifically designed for this purpose. Cars of a sporting nature are, therefore, often very 'stiff', while convertibles or cabriolets are not often considered to be good candidates for high-performance sports cars because of their lack of a rigid roof."

Source: Wikipedia

I can tell what body flex implies (thanks for the explanation though), but I'm asking if most of us have ever experienced body flex and made us cringe when that happened? My answer is no...

NSL own a BMW 650i Cabriolet and read here if he has noticed any body-flex.

http://germancarzone.com/showpost.ph...9&postcount=28