I would like to welcome Mauro Corti as an official contributor for our blog. Since Mauro lives in Europe, he will share his passion for BMWs from an european perspective and teach usa more about the european bimmers as well.

Hello good fellows of bmwblog.com, my name is Mauro and I'thousand here to tell you more about the new BMW 330d.
Some days ago a friend of mine called me saying he had been invited to a private test drive of the new BMW 320xd on the 21st of September and asking me to share the experience; how could i refuse it ?

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When we arrived at the dealer we had a beautiful surprise, the 320xd was out for some other test drive, then we had to drive a 330d… that was unfair right?

Well first of all let me tell yous this: the auto looks neat, it is really nicer than in the photos, especially the hood and the taillights with the new LEDs; the front bumper, combined with the new frontlights with LED plow signals. All these fiddling improvements accept given the motorcar a really aggressive look. The Thousand-pack is only amazing, I've had the pleasance to see a black sedan 3 Series equipped with information technology and trust me, it is actually worth the money you lot pay for it.

So, let me share with you my opionion on the motorcar I tested. It was a BMW 330d Titanium Silvery metallic, equipped with 18″ rims, black Dakota leather, steptronic manual, ten.3″ widescreen navigation system with the new iDrive, sport leather steering bicycle, electric and sport seats.

The driver'southward seat is a bit narrow, or at least it is narrow for me, but I'one thousand 6″3 alpine, and so I'yard definitely non the average tiptop guy. After the initial adjustments trying to wait for the perfect driving position, nosotros've started to drive off slowly; the 3 liter diesel engine is amazing, every time you accelerate you feel a actually consistent force pushing the car from the minimum to the ruby line without any turbo lag.

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The torque is really amazing (520Nm /384lb-ft from 1750 to 3200 rpm and 245bhp at 4000rpm), it doesn't matter what gear you're in, you lot can just accelerate and in a moment yous volition experience a actually good forcefulness pushing dorsum in your seat.


I must say I'm not a fan of the automatic transmission, just BMW's automatic gearbox is simply THE automatic gearbox; y'all can first the car and accelerate to 80mph without feeling whatsoever gear change or lack of ability, and this is really expert considering you truly ask yourself "Am I nevertheless in first gear?".

Another really good matter about this transmission is the Sport way; to enter in the Sport fashion, you only have to push the gear lever to the left and before you can blink your optics, the game starts, you have to achieve 4100 rpm before the gear is automatically shifted and this, combined with that stunning engine, gives y'all a good feeling.

The car moves fast on the road, management changes are not a trouble for the 3 series, like for every other BMW as y'all might know by now; the grip on the road is impressive, the sport suspensions and the 18″ rims requite you a practiced feeling of controlling the car. You can put the 330d to every plow as you like and the car volition only follow it.

Of grade this volition event in a chip of rigidity of the car, and you will feel it on the road bumps, merely recall, the 300d was running on run flat 18″ tires, which are non the quietest or most comfy ones, only in the terminate, the compromise between sport and condolement is really skillful.

I will not talk nearly the iDrive considering it had already been reviewed on BMWBlog, but let me but tell yous this, I think it has really been improved, it is faster and more user-friendly than the old 1, which in my opinion was already old when information technology was introduced some years ago.

Well, that's it dear fellows of bmwblog.com, the BMW 330d is truly a great motorcar, so great that I'1000 gonna buy ane shortly :)

Photos source: NextAutos

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