I feel your pain, I'm also a bit loosen with this 'sprinting elephant'
, and missing that stick too. I've been so lucky that my fiance took my ex car ( 400 kilos lighter audi quattro with stick) and as much I like it still somehow the current F13 640 D is passing by ......
I managed to get this elephant a bit more alive with some fine tuning. Even the car is hefty weighty alloys does not have to be, my current 19" set up is round 25% lighter that the original M 351 set up, this tune did make is accelerate a freely. My gearbox is also tuned. I've a feeling that I'm up to be more satisfied day by day.
But still, feel your pain, I'm also having second thoughts to swap to smaller one.