BMW 335d or Merc C350d

rodenal · 2 Feb 2014 at 15:17

Must admit I really quite like the 3/535d to drive so if its a particularly good price and well specced then its worth considering.

I'd echo all of the above though in that its not really a car that will save you any sort of money so becomes a difficult car to justify buying at the full value and age you're looking at

IAmATeaf · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:02

[TW]Fox;25776629 said:
They exist but they are just very rare. It was discontinued entirely in early 2010. So you've only got just over a year of production to search through, sadly.

I've been looking weekly and found zilch so far, loads of ill specced SE's all over the place.

[TW]Fox · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:21

Thats odd, as LCI 330i SE's are even rarer. Most are M Sport.

IAmATeaf · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:27

I'm looking at E90's, I can see plenty of coupe M Sports.

[TW]Fox · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:49

IAmATeaf said:
I'm looking at E90's, I can see plenty of coupe M Sports.

I figured you were talking about E90's, hence everything I've said has related to the E90. The E92 had a 330i right through to end of production and whilst not exactly everywhere they are fairly easy to find.

There were many less 330i SE LCI sold than 330i M Sport. It seems very odd you are finding loads of SE's and no M Sport's. They didn't sell loads of SE's!

hurfdurf · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:54

Your looking to save money so are spending £14k on a car... what?

Castiel · 2 Feb 2014 at 19:57

I was lucky to get 20mpg out of my old ST220, incredibly expensive to run compared to most modern beamers. (fuel wise anyway)

mjt · 2 Feb 2014 at 22:27

Castiel said:
I was lucky to get 20mpg out of my old ST220, incredibly expensive to run compared to most modern beamers. (fuel wise anyway)

Are the non-ST220 3.0 V6s any better?

[TW]Fox · 2 Feb 2014 at 22:35

mjt said:
Are the non-ST220 3.0 V6s any better?

I can't imagine why they would be.

mjt · 2 Feb 2014 at 23:01

[TW]Fox;25779401 said:
I can't imagine why they would be.

Fair enough. The 2.5 is poor on fuel as well.
Thought maybe the other V6 would be marginally better as it's 20bhp down..

86JR · 3 Feb 2014 at 06:53

cahonis said:
350 miles a week in petrol was costing me about £260 a month, I'll save about £100 a month in fuel alone.

That would cost me about £175 a month in a remapped 2.0tdi a3, I can't see you saving £100 a month in a 3 litre diesel.

[TW]Fox · 3 Feb 2014 at 07:23

Good spot, his figures are total fantasy, just did the maths and 350 a week for 160 a month is a total average of 53mpg. Just ridiculous fantasy numbers.