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Yeah but the mileage the 335d gets is better than what a lot of people are getting in comparable vehicles. Additionally i believe some folks were considering the 335d because it still has enough guts to make them feel good about driving it. For me at least a 2 litre four cylinder would not be my choice. Great mileage isn't everything.
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Philosophizing for a moment, I think that North America uses far too much fossil fuel, and is obsessed with hp ratings in vehicle. I think the automakers having the ability to offer real alternatives that move us forward, with vehicles like the 320d, but instead they are selling the myth that owners can have it all, 0-60 in six seconds for example, 23/36 mpg is 'good enough', etc. If they provided a choice of two diesel models, I wager they would sell more 320d models than 335d models. Sure, offer the 335d, and charge a lot for it. Just provide a real alternative that is much more (63% more) economical for those that want it. The development work is already done. The vehicle exists. Many years ago, my 1.9 VW TDI Passat had something like 120 hp. It cruised just fine at 200 km/hr in Germany on our trips to Italy. It was the 'red badge' engine that was shared with Audi. That same engine came in 90, 100, and 110 hp versions, from memory. The 320d, a vehicle of the same size and weight, has 184 hp, which is pretty similar to the 186 hp we had in our E46 325xi, and that vehicle performed fine. But hey, I would buy a 20d X3 before I bought a 35d X3.
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Why is it better? I'm not sure that an E-class is going to give me the dynamics of a 3 series and I'm more interested in mileage than owning a MB. Maybe I'm missing something.
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To me 26/36 with the level of performance the 335d brings is very appealing. I'm all for demanding something from BMW but I'm not familiar with the Euro models and therefore had not considered them viable at this point in my analysis. I'm all for the higher mileage but I'd be interested in keeping the level of performance of the 335d and not going down much. |
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I agree with your conclusions for the majority of buyers out there. I've been bitten by the performance bug many years ago and am not ready to step down to a slower vehicle at this time. For me, I am willing to pay the price for speed/quickness etc. If however I lived in the city and did 90% of my driving there though, I'd be stepping down, way down in terms of wanting/needing performance. Just wouldn't get to use it and therefore it would make no sense.
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0-60 is definitely not a good gauge of the power of a diesel car.. Diesels tend to be low revving which means you will require a gear change to get to 60 so it's not all about 0-60...
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