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Originally Posted by bandit86
...Even correcting for the odometer error (5%) the highway mileage comes in around 45. Why is BMW not advertising this? Or is the car broken? There is a emission related fault keeping the check engine light on
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Did some cows just pass by here, I'm smelling something...
You need to check with 320Touring as he has a couple of BMWs and I think he would be dancing in the street with 45 (or the equivalent in Imperial MPG) even with his 318iS.
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Originally Posted by MorphDaCivic
Is this the same car that beat a Prius for MPG on the show "Top Gear"? The test pushed the prius to it's top end while the BMW followed in loafing mode.
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No, they ran it against an M3 coupe, the 335 is a mass produced equivalent made possible by BMW fitting the engine from a 5 series into a 3. The test was unrealistic of course (its TG after all
), a better comparison would have been both driving at the Prius speed.
(Disclaimer, I am both a Prius owner, a TG fan, and a fan of the real performance 3-Series the 335d which had to be detuned because it would outrun the new M3...)