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C/D: "Our 2020 BMW M340i Rekindled an Old Flame" - 40,000-Mile Wrap-Up
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Just think about it, a car that can hit 0-60 in just 3.8 secs for a RWD and yet return 33mpg is astonishing. I would tend to believe and agree with their long term review except the part "All-wheel drive is available for $2000, but we passed; powering all four wheels would be sports-sedan sacrilege." LOL.
I think this article hit multiple praise points that many around here have brought up time and again. The M340i is just a great all rounder that can be civilized when it needs to be and then a monster when you want it to be. Awesome. |
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Hopefully C&D will have a long time ownership review on G20 330i RWD too.
For one, mine hit 40+mpg this past weekend cruising comfort mode@hwy speed. It feels like Lexus, drives like BMW. |
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05-11-2021, 03:40 PM | #4 |
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How old are these reviewers? I'm perfectly comfortable driving for multiple hours at a time (even 10+ hours). I guess it helps that I'm neither tall nor overweight and in my 20s, but still. I find the seats to be firm in the right way. Supportive, not soft.
The digital gauges take some time to get used to, but after "long-term" ownership, I can't imagine still finding them difficult to read. Yes, the tach goes "backwards," but other brands have fancier and busier digital dash designs... And you can get an actual number readout for your speed, so there's no real issue there.
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To be frank, a lot of these folks are overweight and older. Their age and physicality read loud and clear through a variety of their published reviews.
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They are s*** gauges though, pretty poor and illegible in design. I mainly keep them in "minimalist" mode or whatever its called when I'm in a new BMW. But seriously they need to add more configurations and redesign them, economy cars have better gauges. A small nitpick on an otherwise great car.
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My G20 330i base has no lumbar support, but the front seats are great so far with up to 2 hrs 1-way.
Mine does not have digital display, but the analog gauges are very cool and almost looks digital(until I saw the needles after engine is off). |
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The gauges aren't great, but I don't hate them. Very lacking in customization compared to most, though, namely Audi. Also hope we see the blind spot cameras in the near future... kind of sad that they're in Kias but not cars that cost multiple times as much.
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As for gauges - I never look at them because I have a HUD display that shows pretty much everything I need. I think HUD is the future, gauges will not be needed. For example, there are no gauges in Tesla 3 and for many people it does not matter |
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Before I took delivery of my car and had read all the negativity about the displays, I was pleasantly surprised and happy with them. |
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I personally LOVE the digital gauges. They give you a lot of information, but not so much that it hurts the experience. I will readily admit that I use the HUD way more than the actual dash, though. I only really use the dash display for MPG info. The HUD provides all of the info I will ever need in a drive. |
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This is exactly what I don't like about the Tesla 3. I don't want to have a single iPod looking screen in the center w/o any gauges. I still enjoy driving a car, not an appliance.
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Agree with you here. Also something that pushed me away from Audi a bit. In some of their newer cars the climate controls and such are a touch screen. That's the worst. Digging through a bunch of menus and such to find something you use frequently is not user-intuitive. I prefer the big, easy buttons so I don't have to take my eyes off the road.
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So it is more than an appliance. |
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The gauge cluster is the last item I have a problem with in the car, and it's BMW's fault for having set the standard with the finest analog cluster in the business. My dad picked up a 2016 A6 during the pandemic, and as soon as I saw the amazing analog gauges in that car I felt instantly cheated! Agreed though that the HUD solves pretty much everything, from the tach moving left to right to keeping only speed and tach available on the HUD for a focused experience. Minimal mode would have been my go-to but it's not configurable enough. And iDrive 8 is not likely to solve anything in the customization world, BMW seems too intent on telling us what we want. I will reserve judgement 'til I see it of course.
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My favorite part about the HUD is BMW's seamless integration of navigation info, including displaying a map as you're approaching a turn point. I mean, you see the digital Speedometer readout, the speed limit sign, if you're in sport, you see a pseudo tach... but then you see a map of where you're driving pop up for the first time... and I was like WOAH!!! WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?!?!?!?! What can I say, I'm amused by small things. |
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I definitely wouldn't rely on cameras instead of just looking over my shoulder. It would be nice if all new cars had the whole range of safety features as standard, though. For the bad drivers out there. In this case, it's more about other cars having features that we don't. Although BMW would probably charge for it...
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However the same rear radar sensors are also used for rear cross traffic alert, which can be useful. |
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Reviewers of cars like to nitpick. But then, all they do is drive different cars and talk about it.
The gauges, the steering feel... so many of these opinions are based on outdated mental models of what a performance car feels like. Drive one of these and then drive anything else and then compare price tags. I mean I guess the baby AMG is appealing too. I guess ... |
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