![]() We almost beat the all-powerful 2007 Audi RS4, too. For comparison, our 2005 M3 Competition Package used up 5.5 seconds getting to 60 and finished the quarter-mile in 13.7 seconds at 105.4 mph - close, but still a rearview-mirror performance. Our 335i similarly scalded the quarter-mile in 13.3 seconds at 105.9 mph. Folks give aftermarket tuners wads of cash for that kind of performance bump, especially when a car starts out in the mid 5s to begin with. Seven-tenths of a second quicker? That's 13-percent better than BMW's claim. ![]() BMW says the new coupe mit twin-turbo engine and Steptronic six-speed autobox should make that trip in 5.5 seconds. Nothing about our Austrian First Drive of the car prepared us for this.Ĭonsider the facts: This 2007 BMW 335i test car blazed from zero to 60 in 4.8 seconds. Our freshly minted 3 Series twin-turbo coupe has not only eclipsed BMW's own impressive performance figures - by a ton - it's also smoked those of the 2005 BMW M3 Competition Package, a car we called "The Best M3 Ever Sold in America." And while that admittedly turbo-deprived car had been a six-speed manual, the Arctic Metallic 2007 BMW 335i Coupe cooling in the driveway is but an automatic. We're tearing our collective hair out trying to determine why the track-test numbers from our 2007 BMW 335i test car are so far off.
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