How can someone not know what car they own???

How can someone not know what car they own???

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Bitzer

4,229 posts

167 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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A bit bleary eyed hehe

What next a 4 cyl 530d?!

I used to think I knew the BMW naming convention, I think I'll give up.

Timberwolf

5,340 posts

217 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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E30M3SE said:
ajb85 said:
True. Bring back ye olde days! I know that the current line up of Mercedes is equally if not more confusing.
Are those the days were a E30 316 had a 1.8litre engine, and prior to that E21 315 had a1.6 litre engine?
And the 325e with its long-stroke 2.7 litre.

Mercedes even came up with the solution to this badging jimmynudgery, with the spectacularly disambiguated 450SEL 6.9 - maybe they need to go back to that. Ideally with both the honesty, and the 6.9 designation.

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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CampDavid said:
ajb85 said:
Think they've brought the 328i back with the new new shape!
Indeed, though it's now a 2.0 turbo. Obviously
The FIA always used use 1.4 as the 'equivalence' for a turbo, so 1.4x2.0 = 2.8 it IS a 328i biggrin

Doesn't explain your 4.4 litre 740 though smile

M.

Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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the numbers don't denote the engine size, i am sure it has been explained a million times. They exist to denote a hierarchy of variants within the models. As always, if you are going to start pointing fingers and ridiculing lack of knowledge, you better be sure you have your facts right.

Pints

18,444 posts

193 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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Blown2CV said:
the numbers don't denote the engine size, i am sure it has been explained a million times. They exist to denote a hierarchy of variants within the models. As always, if you are going to start pointing fingers and ridiculing lack of knowledge, you better be sure you have your facts right.
Yes, but when these were all green fields...

smile

HeatonNorris

1,649 posts

147 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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Timberwolf said:
And the 325e with its long-stroke 2.7 litre.
Wasn't that a 525e?

Can't recall that lump going into a 3-series. (That would have been an E30, which I recall had the 'small block' 6-pot, the 2.7 'economy' lump was the 'big block' 6 which was only used in the bigger cars)

Pints

18,444 posts

193 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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HeatonNorris said:
Timberwolf said:
And the 325e with its long-stroke 2.7 litre.
Wasn't that a 525e?

Can't recall that lump going into a 3-series. (That would have been an E30, which I recall had the 'small block' 6-pot, the 2.7 'economy' lump was the 'big block' 6 which was only used in the bigger cars)
Wiki seems to agree that there was a 325e.

And I know they fitted the 2.7 into the E30 in South Africa (although it was badged as something else IIRC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_3_Series_%28E30%2...

Blown2CV

28,697 posts

202 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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Pints said:
Blown2CV said:
the numbers don't denote the engine size, i am sure it has been explained a million times. They exist to denote a hierarchy of variants within the models. As always, if you are going to start pointing fingers and ridiculing lack of knowledge, you better be sure you have your facts right.
Yes, but when these were all green fields...

smile
yep long, long ago when there were only 3 variants of each model rather than 50, they matched up rather nicely. They haven't done for decades though! Model lineups have got too complicated to be able to differentiate solely on the 2 trailing digits and keep them aligned to engine capacity. Would we rather be able to tell, or have it be an outward secret like with Audi and it's 3 different power outputs of 2.0TDi in the A4, differentiated only by actually looking at the bhp figures?

HeatonNorris

1,649 posts

147 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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Pints said:
Wiki seems to agree that there was a 325e.

And I know they fitted the 2.7 into the E30 in South Africa (although it was badged as something else IIRC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_3_Series_%28E30%2...
Interesting. Seems we never got it in the UK, though.

For some reason, I thought the 2.7e engine was an M30, but it's an M20.

Leins

9,418 posts

147 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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jay140285 said:
Fair play chap.


Separate note

Doesnt ES stand for Executive Specification = The one most companies lease for there employees so they have a BMW just poverty spec one.
ES stood for "Edition Sport" in the E46. Saloon and Compact only as far as I remember

PetrolDriver

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781 posts

146 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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Leins said:
ES stood for "Edition Sport" in the E46. Saloon and Compact only as far as I remember
That's laughable.

martin84

5,366 posts

152 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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I asked a girl what she drove once and she said 'a blue one.'

Seriously.

PetrolDriver

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781 posts

146 months

Saturday 30th June 2012
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martin84 said:
I asked a girl what she drove once and she said 'a blue one.'

Seriously.
Did you have a blue one for her to drive?