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Originally Posted by hwelvaar
Don't forget to raise your BMW fanboy flag. 
So you're saying that at this time, the pack is ahead of BMW?
VW/Audi has always been pretty good with 4 cilyinder turbo engines... |
I'm afraid so. But then, 1-series apart, BMW has not had much incentive to be cutting edge with their 4-cyl petrols. UK only sells diesel X1s for example, and currently only a diesel X3.
I would imagine in the UK hardly anyone buys a petrol 3-series either. Their 4-cyl 2.0 petrol that you find in the 320i, 120i and the X1 sDrive18i that I've ordered is about 5 years behind I would say.
I would think this diesel trend runs across Europe, but US and other petrol-loving markets BMW need new efficient 4s. To be honest they're quite late to the party, compared to VW/Audi and others as well.
What's interesting is that as recently as about a year ago VW have been pushing customers toward their petrol engines - they found diesels expensive to make. And BMW have been pushing diesels - as they are doing now at the expo in US - they're trying to convert US customers.