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OT: Diesels are the way to go -
04-15-2007
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And never once did I catch a whiff of diesel exhaust stink. |
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Hi all, Just got back from Europe yesterday, my first time to Germany visiting friends, and we rented a BMW 3-series touring sedan with one of their diesel v-6's with the six-speed auto. I'm guessing it was the 330, but not sure...there were no tags on the car that indicated the model and the manual was in German. Anyway, driving that car around for a week has me convinced that the North American auto market is missing out big time on modern diesel technology. Performance was excellent, it had great acceleration, it topped out at about 140mph (228kph...I love the autobahn!) and I got a combined 6.8L/100km which translates to about 34.6 mpg while regularly running the autobahn at 100-110mph. It was about as quiet as my wife's Saturn Aura, though the engine did make a different sound, more like a four cylinder gas engine. And never once did I catch a whiff of diesel exhaust stink. Just thought I'd share... -- --- Matt Macchiarolo mlmacchiarolo at comcast dot net |
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Did you drive down to Munich and buy a Coo-Coo clock in their Dead Forest? God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 mailto:LWHughes3rd (AT) aol (DOT) com http://www.billhughes.com/ "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt (AT) nospamplease (DOT) com> wrote in message news:Xu6dnWc0Q_zIrL_bnZ2dnUVZ_rqhnZ2d (AT) comcast (DOT) com... Hi all, Just got back from Europe yesterday, my first time to Germany visiting friends, and we rented a BMW 3-series touring sedan with one of their diesel v-6's with the six-speed auto. I'm guessing it was the 330, but not sure...there were no tags on the car that indicated the model and the manual was in German. Anyway, driving that car around for a week has me convinced that the North American auto market is missing out big time on modern diesel technology. Performance was excellent, it had great acceleration, it topped out at about 140mph (228kph...I love the autobahn!) and I got a combined 6.8L/100km which translates to about 34.6 mpg while regularly running the autobahn at 100-110mph. It was about as quiet as my wife's Saturn Aura, though the engine did make a different sound, more like a four cylinder gas engine. And never once did I catch a whiff of diesel exhaust stink. Just thought I'd share... -- --- Matt Macchiarolo mlmacchiarolo at comcast dot net -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Hi all, Just got back from Europe yesterday, my first time to Germany visiting friends, and we rented a BMW 3-series touring sedan with one of their diesel v-6's with the six-speed auto. I'm guessing it was the 330, but not sure...there were no tags on the car that indicated the model and the manual was in German. Anyway, driving that car around for a week has me convinced that the North American auto market is missing out big time on modern diesel technology. Performance was excellent, it had great acceleration, it topped out at about 140mph (228kph...I love the autobahn!) and I got a combined 6.8L/100km which translates to about 34.6 mpg while regularly running the autobahn at 100-110mph. It was about as quiet as my wife's Saturn Aura, though the engine did make a different sound, more like a four cylinder gas engine. And never once did I catch a whiff of diesel exhaust stink. Just thought I'd share... -- --- Matt Macchiarolo mlmacchiarolo at comcast dot net |
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No, but we did go to Nuremburg and we stood here: http://www.kubiss.de/kulturreferat/r...ribuene_2,.jpg |
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1.) Are you sure it was a V6? BMWs are usually inline 6s. BMWs usually badge the trunk lid with the model, and there is a 330d rolling around Europe. The 330i that is in our market is an I6, not a V6, I'm not sure of the configuration of the diesel motors, but I thought they were an I6 as well. |
Europe have two V-6 diesels available as well as two four-cylinder diesels.
There were no badges of any kind on the car except the BMW logo. Many cars
over there were like that, my friend I was visiting says you have to request
the badges when ordering. I'm even guessing at the number of cylinders
based on my fuel consumption and top speed, there was nothing under the hood
that told me how many cylinders it had short of taking the plastic engine
cover off. It did *sound* like a four, but I don't think it was.
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2.) Personally, I hold diesel motors in VERY low regard. Having said that, I took note recently of the Audi TDI cars running in the Le Mans Series. They kick ass. I need to re-think my position on them. |
performance and smoothness of this engine. Incidentally, almost every car
that passed me on the autobahn when I was going a decent clip (110mph) was
an Audi, and was usually black and passed me as though I was standing still
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"Matt Macchiarolo" <matt (AT) nospamplease (DOT) com> wrote in message news:Xu6dnWc0Q_zIrL_bnZ2dnUVZ_rqhnZ2d (AT) comcast (DOT) com... Hi all, Just got back from Europe yesterday, my first time to Germany visiting friends, and we rented a BMW 3-series touring sedan with one of their diesel v-6's with the six-speed auto. I'm guessing it was the 330, but not sure...there were no tags on the car that indicated the model and the manual was in German. Anyway, driving that car around for a week has me convinced that the North American auto market is missing out big time on modern diesel technology. Performance was excellent, it had great acceleration, it topped out at about 140mph (228kph...I love the autobahn!) and I got a combined 6.8L/100km which translates to about 34.6 mpg while regularly running the autobahn at 100-110mph. It was about as quiet as my wife's Saturn Aura, though the engine did make a different sound, more like a four cylinder gas engine. And never once did I catch a whiff of diesel exhaust stink. Just thought I'd share... -- --- Matt Macchiarolo mlmacchiarolo at comcast dot net |
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Been there done that, I was stationed 150 miles west of you, between Frankfurt and Luxembourg. So you haven't see the forest for the dead trees? God Bless America, Bill 0|||||||0 mailto:LWHughes3rd (AT) aol (DOT) com http://www.billhughes.com/ "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt (AT) nospamplease (DOT) com> wrote in message news:PoadnQqgGMB-lbnbnZ2dnUVZ_gadnZ2d (AT) comcast (DOT) com... No, but we did go to Nuremburg and we stood here: http://www.kubiss.de/kulturreferat/r...ribuene_2,.jpg -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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| "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote in message news:Q6UUh.1434$xL6.325 (AT) trnddc05 (DOT) .. 1.) Are you sure it was a V6? BMWs are usually inline 6s. BMWs usually badge the trunk lid with the model, and there is a 330d rolling around Europe. The 330i that is in our market is an I6, not a V6, I'm not sure of the configuration of the diesel motors, but I thought they were an I6 as well. I checked out the BMW-Germany website and apparently BMW 3-series cars in Europe have two V-6 diesels available as well as two four-cylinder diesels. There were no badges of any kind on the car except the BMW logo. Many cars over there were like that, my friend I was visiting says you have to request the badges when ordering. I'm even guessing at the number of cylinders based on my fuel consumption and top speed, there was nothing under the hood that told me how many cylinders it had short of taking the plastic engine cover off. It did *sound* like a four, but I don't think it was. 2.) Personally, I hold diesel motors in VERY low regard. Having said that, I took note recently of the Audi TDI cars running in the Le Mans Series. They kick ass. I need to re-think my position on them. This is not your father's diesel :-) I was pleasantly surprised at the performance and smoothness of this engine. Incidentally, almost every car that passed me on the autobahn when I was going a decent clip (110mph) was an Audi, and was usually black and passed me as though I was standing still :-) "Matt Macchiarolo" <matt (AT) nospamplease (DOT) com> wrote in message news:Xu6dnWc0Q_zIrL_bnZ2dnUVZ_rqhnZ2d (AT) comcast (DOT) com... Hi all, Just got back from Europe yesterday, my first time to Germany visiting friends, and we rented a BMW 3-series touring sedan with one of their diesel v-6's with the six-speed auto. I'm guessing it was the 330, but not sure...there were no tags on the car that indicated the model and the manual was in German. Anyway, driving that car around for a week has me convinced that the North American auto market is missing out big time on modern diesel technology. Performance was excellent, it had great acceleration, it topped out at about 140mph (228kph...I love the autobahn!) and I got a combined 6.8L/100km which translates to about 34.6 mpg while regularly running the autobahn at 100-110mph. It was about as quiet as my wife's Saturn Aura, though the engine did make a different sound, more like a four cylinder gas engine. And never once did I catch a whiff of diesel exhaust stink. Just thought I'd share... -- --- Matt Macchiarolo mlmacchiarolo at comcast dot net |
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We stayed most of the time outside of Schwienfurt, about an hour from Frankfurt. All the trees I saw were alive. Driving to Salzburg looked like driving through East Tennessee, with all the conifers. |
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