America's Top 40 New Cars
GAS MISERS
21. BMW 335D
WHY IT'S ON OUR HIT PARADE: A first glance, the words "diesel" and "BMW" look like an odd pairing. Look again. This one employs a 50-state clean diesel using urea injection to minimize NOx emissions and twin turbos to maximize verbal emissions, such as these other two German morsels: "heiliger bimbam!"(look it up). 425 pound-feet of torque can do that.
COOL FACT: All this in a smartly freshened body that cloaks wider front and rear tracks.
SUM UP: Maybe the highest ratio of thrill per carbon molecule this side of rocketry.
THE DETAILS
Price: $44,725
Powertrain: 3.0L/265-hp/425-lb-ft/twin-turbodiesel I-6/6-sp auto
Vital Stats: 0-60: 6.0 sec*/quarter: 14.5 sec (est)/EPA: 23/36 mpg (mfr est)
...
>>next page