New 320d makes peak power at 5,500rpm

[Welshbeef]

LexyLex said:

None recently - and with these overly thick steering wheels - yuck. Just yuck. I’ll keep the Lexus, as it really is a car that only superlatives can describe, and wait and see what the New Mazdas are doing with the rumoured straight six

That ought to be fun.

https://youtu.be/zKrXFTL_6pw

Appears the top jurno in the U.K. disagrees with you

[Welshbeef]

Rawwr said:

My penis is very average.

Sorry but no way can anyone not not quote that

[Welshbeef]

yonex said:

So why not focus on those instead of whinging about the 320, makes no difference to those that choose them anyway?

I’ve listed everything in the garage on my profile.

How does a Nova SR compare against the Atom 3.5?

I’ve been in both - both were boat loads of fun in very different ways. That Vauxhall engine was thrashed to within an inch of its life each and every single day of my ownership - it never broke either regardless of the brutal style I drove it.
Atom I kept (wrongly) starting in first and goin hard then wondering why is fishtailed off the track. Hugely fact and the added wind on the face makes it even ore special - that said on the same track I took an E46 M3 (stripped out for track use only) slower than the Atom but I felt that was more enjoyable more controllable with the throttle

[Welshbeef]

s m said:

Looks like peak power at 4000rpm
Changes up at around 5200rpm

Full test

60 in 6.9 with the 8-sp auto in the dry

But loses out to their times for the GT86 by 100

High weight (1639kg) blunts this example’s performance

Edited by s m on Wednesday 15th May 07:41

So it does rev to 5,200 rpm - the Autocar online got it wrong they stated 5,500 rpm but it’s 5,200rpm. Not far off but still off

MOdS can you contact Autocar jurno and flag up this error / sloppy article.

[Welshbeef]

Fastdruid said:

Indeed. My Mondeo is a lardy beast at 1600Kg...but its a *big* estate with a heavy 5-cylinder turbo and in terms of physical *size* I'd argue the Mondeo is more comparable to the 5-series than the 3-series these days. Long gone are the days when it was the same size as the 3-series.

Issue is your car came out in 2005 (yours being a 2008/9) so the safety tech required now v then we can blame NCAP and the EU but in any crash if you had the choice to be in your old ford or a brand new 3 you’d be a screw loose if you choose the Ford much less safe as you’d expect

[Welshbeef]

LexyLex said:

But that's a "drivers" car because the internet says it is.

When expert drivers review it and state it is xyz then it probably is - our opinion is going to be based on what you have driven which is likely very few cars and I suspect in any test drive you will not be using it on a track to see its limits and how it delivers in those situations.

No one drives cars like Evo or Monkey or Top Gear they do it to show what’s possible and in extreme environments it behaves in this way or that. All whilst keeping you as safe as possible so that in nearly all accidents you’d simply walk away without a scratch.

A 205 1.9 GTi whisky an epic car have an accident in that at pace and your likely to be dead or life changing injuries.

[Welshbeef]

TheDrBrian said:

Welshbeef said:

So it does rev to 5,200 rpm - the Autocar online got it wrong they stated 5,500 rpm but it’s 5,200rpm. Not far off but still off

MOdS can you contact Autocar jurno and flag up this error / sloppy article.

Just like 5200 not being about 5500.

Bloody Haymarket Autocar getting it wrong and having it on their online article (assume you read the link in the first post?)

Time for Autocar/PH to put their hands up we got it wrong and correct it.

[Welshbeef]

LexyLex said:

130mph is not that fast.

And look, that vile clattering sound - clearly you could live with that every day. I really could not. The 340i is the only 3 series anyone should buy.

Goood job it does 149mph then isn’t it.

This car does 79mph higher than the maximum permitted legal speed on the U.K. roads.



Also it’s ovely to see for anyone who says it will not rev to those RPMs you can see the mph it actually gets so it doesn’t change up you could take it to those revs if you wanted to

[Welshbeef]

Shiv_P said:

Shiv_P said:

Beef got your 535d video yet?

I know there have been requests of this but I’ll not be providing as no way will I film my car whilst driving on the road so ask away but no video was ever promised

[Welshbeef]

BathyThermo said:

Shiv_P said:

Shiv_P said:

Beef got your 535d video yet?

Well, have you WB?

Or were you just making it up?

As said above someone asked for a video of me over being my engine - guess what the answer to that was / silence = not going to be supplied.

Plus it’s too dangerous and illegal to to do that

[Welshbeef]

BathyThermo said:

Welshbeef said:

I know there have been requests of this but I’ll not be providing as no way will I film my car whilst driving on the road so ask away but no video was ever promised

So do it while stationary. Better for the engine anyway as you wont be putting it under any load.

Unless you were making it up?

Ask away but I’ll be filming no such thing.

[Welshbeef]

Isn’t that Lexus an odd comparison to the 320d?

LexyLex from your posting it appears your car cannot even deliver 50% of the mpg - a weak performance given the 320d is a to b transport and high dconomy

[Welshbeef]

yonex said:

Welshbeef said:

Isn’t that Lexus an odd comparison to the 320d?

LexyLex from your posting it appears your car cannot even deliver 50% of the mpg - a weak performance given the 320d is a to b transport and high dconomy

Apparently he’d rather drive 600 miles in his barge than catch a cheap flight and hire something interesting at the destination. That’s devotion right there

I wasn’t aware you could fly quicker from Reading to Bristol or Reading to Rugby/Derby (door to door and £ cheaper).

Do you fly frequently within the U.K. to avoid driving the Lexus?

[Welshbeef]

LexyLex said:

yonex said:

As you’ve only driven slow cars you wouldn’t know.

If I arrived at a clients in an old Lexus, I’d be embarrassed.

Now you are trolling - earlier in the thread - I listed some of the cars I've owned - all of which are faster than your current stead (bar maybe the Atom)

Maybe like you he hasn’t updated his garage profile and might be the owner or previous owner of many very crazy fast cars or maybe not.

Of course we might all be being loose with the truth.

[Welshbeef]

BathyThermo said:

Welshbeef said:

Ask away but I’ll be filming no such thing.

Because you made it up, and won't admit it. Yet.

Seems you have previous for such behaviour though.

Odd someone asks for a video and keeps asking for it when none was suggested or stated would be forthcoming of my car. Maybe you should read and not up tosh.

Hey why don’t you post up a pic of that Elise Erving into the red. Come on do it now and your insurance documents plus V5 else your garage or any car you claim to have driven or owned is utter fantasy.

Why not post up a film and shout out hey this is for you welshbeef PH then it’s more likely genuine but again might not be your car.

[Welshbeef]

LexyLex said:

Welshbeef said:

Isn’t that Lexus an odd comparison to the 320d?

LexyLex from your posting it appears your car cannot even deliver 50% of the mpg - a weak performance given the 320d is a to b transport and high dconomy

I wouldn't care about the MPG - life is too short to drive a nasty diesel.

And there you have it - the car this thread is about target market DO care about that. It’s good so you wouldn’t be interested in it plenty of others to go

[Welshbeef]

LexyLex said:

Welshbeef said:

And there you have it - the car this thread is about target market DO care about that. It’s good so you wouldn’t be interested in it plenty of others to go

They'll also not do anywhere near their quoted figures and a hybrid model, given the regulatory climate regarding air quality would make a 320d an unwise choice.

A hybrid is where the smart money goes.

Well this Autocar article as someone posted the real life figures achieved fill to fill did it so unless you think Autocar are telling lies then I’m not sure what anyone can say or do about it (we cannot test it yet as it’s not available to the public for sale and test yet)

[Welshbeef]

LexyLex said:

BathyThermo said:

A friend of mine is right into his Skylines, hes got a few, but his first was a 700bhp+ R33 GTS-25T, so 2WD. Was pretty mental.

Mine was 4wd. That thing would be mental with that. I don't think I'd be alive with the 2wd one. Is he into drifting?

The 4wd system in them was so ahead of it's time. Still is in many ways. As a drivers car they're hard to beat.

It’s bizarre why all the other markets have not bought one when new and reversed engineered them removing the advantage.

[Welshbeef]

SidewaysSi said:

Standard? Come on - custard please.

The issue is with online we can all be anyone with anything or everything. Some believe people some doubt some lie some don’t

Bizarrely for me I lied about a sales or repair scrapper 944 pile of junk and people went batst crazy as some username said some lies about a dirt cheap scrapper yet too end cars or what have you no one really challenged


I was fking asked to post up V5’s insurance documentations GDPR - oddly OHMODs didn’t jump in and stop any of that ..... say no more and when directly challenges with evidence of the exact crime why one has a 28 day ban and tother got zilch and many others got zilch is questionable. Maybe this is why Garlick is no longer on social media as it is he who delivered the ban and refused to replicate for identical. Transgressions. But hey life’s a funny old game isn’t it people getting keyboard warrior against a username they don’t know will never meet etc. Also seems people say a lot more aggressive things online and wouldn’t dream about saying it face to face... I’d have loved any of those 7-8 years ago saying what they did face to face.... say no more. They seem to think they can say and do anything without any recourse ... they are wrong.

[Welshbeef]

LexyLex said:

I think you do after 20 odd pages of slating one of the cars I own and my reasons for owning it plus for me to dare suggest it’s a better car than a 320d - which by all logic - it is!!

Why not mention the Rolls Royce it’s miles better than the 320d.

Utterly irrelevant to the thread but hey ho