320d auto M sport coupe

[1981linley]

Just got this as a courtesy car from lotus bentley dealership which is ironic as I was looking at buying one in my short lived sensible phase. The badge, economy and coupe styling appealed. It is top spec, full red leather, every extra...but still disappointing in many ways. Likes....chunky steering wheel, thing that passes the seatbelt, surge forward before auto box changes gear, deep boot, led red glow on door panels. Dislikes....narrowness of cabin, can't get seat right despite electric adjustable everything, awful cheap black plastic vents and dash, tinny, fake crocodile skin graphite attempt at looking like carbon fibre everywhere, hardness of plastic where left knee touches centre console while foot is resting on footplate, cheap cup holder in passenger dash sliding out just too far away for driver, stereo buttons also too far away, wipers very noisy and hard to adjust speed of, green tint to back window (or is it the rear view mirror) to reduce glare, cheap sounding and tinny feel of glovebox and centre console box mechanism when opening and closing, fuel economy...200 mile has cost £30...I expected better from a diesel. Classic case of letting accountants run loose during design process, shaving pennies off all the little things that matter. Understand this is about as good as it gets from BMW too in terms of interiors. Anyone agree?

[bennyboydurham]

1981linley said:

Understand this is about as good as it gets from BMW too in terms of interiors. Anyone agree?

The E90/E60 wasn't BMWs finest hour for interiors, no. My E65 is in a different league, thankfully. I've also driven an F01 7 and an F10 5 and both were streets ahead of the outgoing models. Whether the new upcoming 3er is better than the E90, we'll see.

[1981linley]

Fuel economy averaging at 38 with normal driving...way below what I expected. Almost bought one of these as a sensible, cheap to run car too. Glad I didn't.