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Expensive diesel pleasure

Modern diesel engines are ready to shut up the belt of gasoline competitors. Car Europe has long been in the power of diesel fuel. Diesel is already in motorsport! Progressive domestic minds give him the role of the main fuel alternative. However, the average consumer is not yet ready to make a choice in favor of the vehicle, still unconventional for Russia.

 
BMW was one of the first to supply diesel modifications to Russia to Russia. If you want - buy, there is a choice, and risk is a noble business. As you know, Russia is a country of unpredictable gas stations, and this is especially true for alternative fuel.

 
Here you have, by the way, the task. There are two sedans of the third series indicated by index 330, both with 3 -liter in -line sixes, but one feeds on diesel fuel and the other - gasoline. We must make a choice. I think most will dwell on the gasoline version. Especially when you consider that diesel is almost 2000 more. But maybe he is worth it?

 
The car is slightly tapping and vibrates - the motor warms up, and through an excellent spring weather, an exciting smell of diesel exhaust penetrates in the occasion of excellent spring weather. The people are still customary to call such cars tractors. If so, then this is a frantic tractor.

 
Yes, and all -wheel drive. Of great rarity even for a spoiled capital. The treasured numbers 330 seasoned with the letters XD are a real feast for a diesel gourmet. There are quite few coupes in the city, but still many times more than 330xd, since such a diesel three hundred and thirty (something tells me) is only one. That is why the owners of gasoline tremors have long and thoughtfully examine this car in traffic jams. They would definitely like to themselves the same. But, most likely, in another life, in another country and for other money. But how do you not want to? Black, on beautiful 18-inch discs. With chrome. With the family bend of the line of the rear door. BMW! Needless to talk about popular love for the Bavarian brand in the country where Bayerische Motoren-Werke compare songs?

 
The cabin also literally has nothing to complain about. Leather, wood, excellent steering wheel, IDRive with voice control. By the way, a very useful and funny thing. With average knowledge of English, you can significantly simplify contacts with car systems.

 
And all -wheel drive here is very helpful. Do you know what is 500 nm of torque? This incredible silver drags forward a one and a half -ton car with almost idle speeds, and he rapidly gains speed with powerful short jerks. If only the rear wheels were leading, the driver would have to work much more - the wheels would probably have broken into a slip, and the stabilization system would have strangled the motor. But in this case, at the start, all four wheels are rowing, it remains only to hit the gas pedal - and the landscape will begin to flicker outside the window at a terrifying speed. The all -wheel drive modification is officially accelerated to 100 km/h and 0.1 seconds faster than the rear -wheel drive, which is lighter than it.

 
And how cool it is to add fuel into the motor at the exit from the turn - a powerful moment acceleration follows! With gasoline, for such a turn of the turn, it would have to be hanged at high speeds, and then I drove in two thousand and just drowned the pedal.

 
Remember, Diesel Tarakol, warming up? In motion, the car makes you forget about this little misunderstanding. The motor works quietly and noble, practically does not betray its titanic efforts. But, recalling how the in -line 3 -liter six sang, which showed the maximum of its capabilities at 330 IA, I ask myself: which is better - the silence or aria of the BMW engine? In general, I attribute myself to lovers of vocal art. Nevertheless, the merit of a diesel engine in increasing the overall comfort of 330xd can not be appreciated.

 
And everything would be just wonderful, but, trying to make a car extremely friendly to the riders, the Bavarians, apparently, overdid it a little. The suspension lacks energy intensity. If our roads as a whole are at least a little similar to autobahns, I probably would not have noticed anything like that, but I’ll say so - shock absorbers often pierces, and on gentle waves the car acquires a tangible buildup, throwing passengers and not inspiring faith in the driver. It remains only to squeeze the steering wheel in his hands and steal, if necessary. And it is in those places where the road is very far from the ideal, and especially where the track was laid in the winter. However, on a flat surface, a treshka becomes itself, causing pleasure to refined reactions to the action of the steering wheel, excellent course stability and magnificent brakes. By the way, there is only one claim to the steering wheel - it is too heavy in the parking lot.
 

At the end of the test, I got acquainted with the indicators of the on -board computer - the average fuel consumption when moving around the city (in far from sparing mode) was about 12 liters per 100 km. 231 strength, 500 nm, 6.6 seconds to hundreds, 242 km/h maximum speed - and all this for 12 liters of diesel fuel! Gasoline units in this mode rarely fall below 16-17 liters. What a pity that we are not Europe, what a pity that a diesel machine is more expensive than gasoline. And what a pity that DT is only slightly inferior to the 95th in price!
 

BMW 330xd prices and equipment


A car worth 60 600 will delight the buyer with the following set: 6 airbags, ABS, DSC, CBC, steering wheel steering, a leather steering wheel with adjustment, 4 electric windows and electric mirrors, linings for the interior decoration, a central lock with an anti -theft system. From additional options: leather interior, multifunctional steering wheel, allo -linked wheels R18 (205/40 in front, 255/35 in front), alarm, a rear window curtain with electric drive, electroregulations of the front seats and heating, folding rear seats, parctronic lights, fog lights, fog light Rain and lighting sensor, bixenon headlights, separate climate control, Hi-Fi audio system, CD changer, Bluetooth, Luke, Carter pallet protection.
 

Text: Leonty Tyutelev

 
 
 

Source: Magazine Motor