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Totally, makes the A5 3.2FSI look pretty crap really doesnt it?
330i M Sport Coupe 0-60 5.9, 272bhp, 173g/km CO2, 38mpg
A5 3.2TFSI S-Line Quattro 0-60 5.9, 261bhp, 214g/km CO2, 31mpg
Nice.
The future direction of BMW
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Totally, makes the A5 3.2FSI look pretty crap really doesnt it?
330i M Sport Coupe 0-60 5.9, 272bhp, 173g/km CO2, 38mpg
A5 3.2TFSI S-Line Quattro 0-60 5.9, 261bhp, 214g/km CO2, 31mpg
Nice.
future direction ?, prolly backwards.. same as they appear in my wing mirrors on a daily basis
Really? You must be thrashing that overpriced Hyundai i10 hard if BMW's appear to go backwards? Maybe you're still angry about paying more for a used one than a new one?
Really? You must be thrashing that overpriced Hyundai i10 hard if BMW's appear to go backwards? Maybe you're still angry about paying more for a used one than a new one?
Uh oh.....
No, it is normally aspirated.
Really? You must be thrashing that overpriced Hyundai i10 hard if BMW's appear to go backwards? Maybe you're still angry about paying more for a used one than a new one?
I don't drive a i10, my wife does
Yep.... VAG really need to step their game up!
They don't need to bother because nobody buys one anyway, BMW have stopped doing it as a Saloon or a Touring and in the last 4 years only 600 people have bought a 330i M Sport Coupe of any transmission type.
Sigh.
Yep.... VAG really need to step their game up!
This is what annoys me. BMW have brought their 3 litre 6 cylinder engines so far, to the point where no body can really get close to them in terms of all round ability, and now for the F30 the likelyhood is that they'll be dropping 6 cylinder engines altogether.
I've just read that instead of the N54 twin turbo in the 335i (or N55 single turbo now), they might introduce a 2 litre 4-pot with twin turbos instead.
[TW]Fox;18531444 said:
Why that little?! I bet a lot of people have been tempted by the 335i as there seem to be so many more of these on sale. But even then, the 272bhp engine in the 330i is one of the best 6 cylinders ever made! Maybe these figures have had something to do with why BMW have all but dropped the 6 cyl for EU markets. Like i said in a previous thread, the BMW salesman that was trying to push my mum towards buying a diesel was even surprised when i told him to look at the 330i's MPG and tell me what the difference was. I really think BMW could have marketed this engine better as i think when people hear "3 litre engine" they immediately think of 20mpg.
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Well, if your drive is like the EU test cycle, and your driving style is like the EU test cycle, then yes, it will really do 39 MPG in the 'real world'.
Even if downsized in class, power and engine size, say, by buying an Audi A3 2.0T i would be getting 35mpg as opposed to the 330i's 39mpg. If i downsized even further to a 2.0TDI i would only be getting 8mpg more, emitting less than 20g/km less and i would have over 100bhp less and 1000cc's less.
It just makes no sense!
I think it probably might - as I said a few days ago I drove an E60 with the same engine on a long trip on Monday and acheived 38mpg with the same driving style that usually yields 31mpg from my 530i. And only 5 miles of this was Motorway.
I think Fox said that he recently got 38.x in his dad's LCI E60 which has the same basic engine as the 330i. So the answer, is - yes, it appears so!
I was refering to the Marques not the general public.
I understand what youre saying though!