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[Sir Tigger KC]

So in another thread we mentioned the BMW straight six engine and in the strange and slightly scary way that the internet works this Top Gear article about BMW engines popped up on my Facebook feed. 

Warning: A small passage within this article may cause offence to some and may be considered downright heretic by many!       

 

[BazaJT]

I've owned two BMWs-both the "shark nose" shape and both petrol-and blown the engines up in both of them,so would never consider another.Been in several fairly recent examples and found them universally uncomfortable enough to make me glad to get out of them.

[Rangie]

Never had a BMW never been impressed by them , friends have had them but never kept them long , always look tatty very quickly in my opinion.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Not fond of the beaver teeth front end on new BMW.

Perhaps 'ugly as f*uck' is the new handsome.

[raywilb]

So in another thread we mentioned the BMW straight six engine and in the strange and slightly scary way that the internet works this Top Gear article about BMW engines popped up on my Facebook feed. 

Warning: A small passage within this article may cause offence to some and may be considered downright heretic by many!       

 

my first mig was a 2.5td & i bought it when it had just had its first mot & the garage i bought it from showed me some photos of racing powerboat it was all wood & he told me that it had two engines in it , same engine that was in the car id just bought. i half expected a boat to be amongst the 20.

[Rangie]

Not fond of the beaver teeth front end on new BMW.

Perhaps 'ugly as f*uck' is the new handsome.

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Got to agree the new grill looks cheap & nasty and just too big for the vehicle.

[Doctor Gollum]

Nowt wrong with beavers 

[dave the builder]

Nowt wrong with beavers 

small ones are OK but the big ones are scary   

[Sir Tigger KC]

I thought the thread was about BMW engines not cars. 

I might be wrong though.... 

[Doctor Gollum]

Petrol or diesel, the straight six definitely pulls stronger than a V6

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Nowt wrong with beavers 

small ones are OK but the big ones are scary   

Is that what they call a growler?

[dave the builder]

Nowt wrong with beavers 

small ones are OK but the big ones are scary   

Is that what they call a growler?

not sure
the M70 V-12 SOHC engine for example
probably does make a "growl" noise 
 

[YZ250]

Petrol or diesel, the straight six definitely pulls stronger than a V6

To give you a comparison, the later 3.0d (in 35d twin turbo guise) wouldn't/doesn't shame itself when pitched against a full on M3/M4 up to just under a ton.    Book speeds on websites show them to be close, but in reality they are very close.  They are both limited to 155mph but the bmw D3 3.0d will push on to 170mph.
As said previously, it's a cracking engine. 

[Viral_Jim]

I suspect the 35d would probaby win the traffic light grand Prix a lot of the time, given they usualy come in x-drive guise, and it rains a lot here. 

[mars]

My BMW is a 330d (E90) and is 231 BHP (totally standard). It has done 157k miles and runs as sweet as a nut. It's a 6 speed manual. Since I bought the car 4 years ago the only thing its had apart from routine servicing is a brake pad sensor. Fuel economy is great … mid/high thirties on local journeys and high forties on the motorway. It has had a full service every year of it's life regardless of mileage which has obviously helped it. Before this I had a 2001 Omega 2.2cdx for eight and a half years.