Test drove one today, very punchy, pulls strongly from below 1500 rpm and revs smoothly (for a diesel) to 5000.
40mph in 5th is only 1500rpm though put your foot down and 70 comes up remarkably quickly.
200bhp and 400nm as well as 50mpg+, pretty refined with the usual 1-Series attributes, great fun to drive and hatchback practicality though not much room in the back.
Not sure it is worth the extra over the 177bhp, 350nm 120d which will also do another 5mpg or so.
Hmmm ...
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How did you get on with the stop/start, which fooled me when I had one as a hire car without any briefing when I picked it up?
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>> How did you get on with the stop/start, >>
I have come across it before, a colleague had it on a 3-Series, was sure he wouldn't like it though got used to it.
You can turn it off, err I mean you can stop it turning itself off ;-).
I would generally turn it off though it works well, simply dip the clutch and it starts.
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As an aside I know of five lady drivers within 1/4 mile of me who have newish 120d's. They are all of a certain age, ie 50+, and do short one mile daily journeys to the local shops. A neighbour has one, and she tells me she only drives 4k miles a year. I strongly suspect she would be better off with a petrol model, but as she can afford to change for a new one every 3 years them presumably sheshould suffer no low mileage related problems.
I say nowt as I would not like to upset her.
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So, my company is encouraging us towards sub-2.0l diesels via financial penalties, this engine in a 3 series touring or a 5 series would be fantastic for me (like the Merc C/E 250CD maybe), I wish the BMW marketing people would dispense with the detuned 3/525d and put this twin-turbo engine in instead..... Otherwise my next UK car may well be a Merc.
As to diesels for short journeys, when SWMBO wanted a Golf a year or so back we got the 1.4TSi instead of the 2.0CR diesel for this very reason, it rarely did more than 4 miles in any journey and we didn't want a DPF. Modern turbo petrols give the torque / drivability characteristics of a diesel without the DPF and slow warm-up.
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>> this engine in a 3 series touring or a 5 series would be fantastic for me >>
The latest 320d/520ds are now 184bhp.
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>> The latest 320d/520ds are now 184bhp.
Unless you go for a detuned one like the EfficientDynamics which only puts out about 160bhp but only emits 109g/km of CO2.
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DPF on the 120d is a far less complicated system than some - there's none of the stupid fluid or other gubbins to go wrong. The engine just runs rich every so often to increase the EGT.
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Alfa Floor your description would also apply to the Mazda DPF system - it injects additional (into the exhaust) to burn off the deposits on the DPF. This is a last resort method mind because increased temperature in the exhaust should do this automatically. Unless too many short journeys.
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They do, but I'd prefer 200PS+ please, especially in a 52xd Touring, maybe the x23d should be updated to put out 220PS too ?
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BMW 1 Series E81/E87 - 123d - Perky Penguin
