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You can count on one hand the cars that became a benchmark in their group from the very first moment they appeared and stayed decades later. BMW Series 3 is one. The new generation is making ...


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You can count on one hand the cars that became a benchmark in their group from the very first moment they appeared and stayed decades later. BMW Series 3 is one. Does the new generation do that?

Kenan Cohen

05/01/2020

Just before we talk about the new BMW 3 Series, let's take a step back and look at the cars that are around the showroom, the X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6 and X7 almost conceal the traditional BMW series. A hook in the road cars section, not only physically, but also in sales numbers. Still, a car like the Series 3 has a specific gravity higher than its sales numbers. Because in many ways it folds in the very long tradition of BMW in the construction of passenger cars that put the driver in the center. No matter if it is 3, 5, 6, 7 or 8 each of these series have been able to appeal to drivers who have appreciated and appreciated cars that have been able to move superbly over the years.

Maintains the design features that accompanied it from previous generations

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

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The new 3 Series is a great evolution of the design associated with this previous generation car. If you think it looks the same - it means its design really succeeded, because it's very different - click here to see the comparison between the current generation and the previous one. Her kidney grill was saved from the mutation he passed in other models where he reached grotesque proportions. The long hood still hides an engine in a very rear position for weight distribution, but the larger excess stench compared to the outgoing generation makes it look less long. The same line of windows, the same shark antenna, and the same "Hoffmeister Kink" are the hallmarks of the Cora C bending company models, named after Wilhelm Hofmeister, BMW home decorator from the mid-1950s to 1970s.

Excellent spaciousness, quality, design and human engineering

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

The driver environment here is designed and designed with the confidence of someone who knows what he is doing and is doing well. No gimmicks, with the right balance between a simple, intuitive touch screen and physical buttons and the central control dial. Everything is so simple and correct. Everything is also laid out in the precise, meticulous, elegant and rich BMW At the "M Sport" finish of the test car, metallic diffusers, black leather and blue stitch. This package also adds sporty skirts and bumpers, Alcantara upholstery seats, rear-wheel-drive controls and other sporty features.

Steering wheel that is hard to stop using

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

Not only does it look great, it also works well, the menus are well-divided and very simple to navigate, turning off and running functions, information clarification, settings, it's all built into some logic that simply knows how to pack into simple units for understanding and operating the best to have comfort or safety systems, and there are Here are so many of them, and they all work just fine. Even the odd display of the digital dashboard, where the rpm moves in the opposite direction (counterclockwise) to make room for a central display, doesn't bother me because of other things it does well, little things that just make the difference, like gradual switching between lighting Day to night on the dashboard that is not suddenly dark, these are fonts of varying speeds, with the speed you are currently traveling showing large and the rest small.

Very good spaciousness and quality of life for two passengers in the back

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

Also in the spacious back seat is very good, significantly better than the previous generation which also offered a good back seat than in the more recent history of BMW Series 3. The canal here quite a hassle was seated by a third passenger in the middle, but two on the sides also have plenty Space within two large, comfortable and well-supported seats.

With 375 liters in the trunk, the business presents a pretty poor performance and usability and it's still without a replacement wheel, just because of the batteries that take up space here. Not only unique to her, in the Volvo S60 for example, the volume is 390 liters and the batteries in general are found throughout the car (the rear electric motor takes the place).

Limited volume in the trunk

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

Electric horses

The business of releasing the names of luxury cars in our era has become especially confusing. At Mercedes and BMW, the numbers no longer indicate engine volumes, but maintain some faint connection to the hierarchy that used to be. Here, too, it's called the 330e, but it's not the BMW 3-liter six-cylinder BMW, but a four-liter 2.0-liter engine with an electric unit. The combined arrangement produces 252 kW in normal and up to 292 kW in the "Extra Boost" mode in a limited time.

Turbo 2.0 liter engine and electric propulsion unit

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

As the hybrid recharges, this Series 3 will allow you to move based on the power you claimed to battery before turning on the gasoline engine for continued movement. The declared range is 56 km electric, we test it reached 39 km electric, including accelerations, air conditioner and without too much trying to save. Moderate driving will easily add 10 miles to that number.

The car offers a host of options for managing the battery, for using the gasoline engine as a motor or as a generator that charges the electric battery and other combinations. But in current use there are two things that are very impressive, the first is that this car really squeezes every drop of energy from the batteries and the second is how it "guides" the driver to drive, not only for how much he can press the pedal before the gasoline engine comes in, but also on a "level" "Clicking on the pedal that says" Are you sure? If you continue to press, we move to the gasoline engine, think of all the polar bears ... ".

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

But even without these stories of charging and power issues, what really matters is that the car performs very well as long as there is battery power and no electric motor amplification, except in extreme high-speed driving on the mountain road, there is no real harm to performance. Also, because the gasoline engine charges the battery, along with the brakes, this has rarely happened to us.

Given its capabilities and behavior, the comfort of travel in the aspect of softening and absorption can certainly be considered good. The main injury comes from the low tire cut, its 19-inch rims result in missing out on minor asphalt fractures and the fact that these runflat tires also result in a really inappropriate car insulation in its position, as long as the road is well paved, but in other cases - borderline.

The look of the 19-inch rims pay off comfortably and noisily

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

Highway 5 on its range of paving has disappeared behind us, heading east to the winding mountain roads that run north on the Jordan Valley and the Gilboa. The first grooves with the Series 3 start out as with any car, but the sooner we get bolder, the deeper I get to know the deeper I cherish the chassis, brakes and the way it allows you to move it faster and faster between its faces in front of it. This steering wheel is more comfortable to grip which I have ever encountered in cars. It is the diameter, thickness and softness that it is simply a pleasure to hold to a level bordering on the journalistic inadequacy of a test car hum.

The electric propulsion unit provides very good performance

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

Emma, ​​for all the fun of caressing, is less sharp than she was in the previous generation, his response to the initial turn, so-called Hebrew in turn is no longer what it was. Make no mistake, this is not purity and drive-by. The initial response of the bow from the steering wheel has a lot of significance in sport driving, this is the equivalent of dipping your toes in the water before you enter them - you want to get a good idea of ​​what's going on there. The second point is, what to do, class is mandatory, BMW can and should demand more in this aspect.

A point where it really came to excellence is in calibrating the gearbox that in each situation does an excellent job of choosing the right gear, maintaining it or shifting in a way that completely eliminates the manual control it offers at this finish level.

LED and grill lighting that did not drift to the oversized districts

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

After overcoming this point and learning it, it is already less disruptive, so you can start to enjoy what non-rear-wheel drive cars will not achieve - the wonderful separation of steering and steering. The possibility of loading gas in the face without the sword of the front wheel grip, in a delicate game of weight transfers rather than steering wheel turning interventions and lowering power to the road from those wheels. The thrust of the engine from turning heads, even in raising all 292 of its horses, still does not challenge its chassis and grip, only serious weight-shifting shakes have moved it to a very short rear step. You can drive it fast, and it is still not one of those cars that are in a hurry, want more than that? Look you know what you're doing behind her wheel.

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

And this desire to avoid much more powerfully in this car is also associated with the desire to see it without the hybrid system and especially with other brakes. It's not unique to Series 3, it's just something that happens in hybrids, sorry, happens in almost all hybrids. Splitting the use of braking to slow the car down and to recharge the battery results in feedback and inconsistent braking power from the car. It will sometimes stop like this and sometimes like that, or start like that and become like that. Like those cats who are a little wrong in the head? And you never know which cat you will return to this time, to the gritty and warm fur lump, or to create a skin that will peel the skin from your face with your nails.

At the end of the test days, the Series 3 recorded an average fuel consumption of 11 km per liter, of course, as with any socket hybrid, this number will change completely with a constant utilization of its charging option and battery power distance coverage only.

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

Still a binding device

Throughout its years, BMW 3 Series has been the "standard" according to judged cars in its category. It's not that she's been the best of all time, the Alpha Julia or Cadillac ATS can certainly give her a serious Fite on a winding road, but no one has ever packed the assemblage better than the Series 3.

But she, too, has changed, it's been a second or third generation, depending on how writers, BMW Series 3 seem to place another layer of bubble wrap (or as they call it "crackles") on its sharp edges from time to time. Not to be outdone, it is still a device, no one yet combines its capability on the winding road with the cabin, quality, technology and overall equipment. But in the back of my paranoid head, which sees how the world plots to shut down the driving machines, begins to flash the warning light that makes the series 3 worry, I'm talking about the gap between what it has represented for decades and what might happen to it.

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

Because with all those jeeps and crossovers in the showroom around you, you must not try to be like everyone else, you have to stay the reason people want this icon on the front and everything it represented in the past.

The price of the series 3 starts at NIS 295,000 for "sports" and in the M Sport version that is priced at NIS 330,000. It is more expensive than the Volvo S60 T8 and weaker than the Mercedes C300e, which also has a strong 320 kW from the 3 Series. Competing with these two new Series 3 brings every possible aspect improvement over the past and also the dynamic ability criticism is the better choice for the driver, Yet.

Road Test: New BMW Series 3 (Photo: Keenan Cohen, Keenan Cohen)

On the technical side: BMW 330e

Engine, propulsion: gasoline, hybrid, rear
Volume: 1,998 cc
Power / RPM (kW): 252 kW (292 in Extra Boost mode)
Torque / rpm (kg): 42.8
Gearbox: Automatic, 8-speed

Measurements:
Length (cm): 471
Width (cm): 183
Height (cm): 144
Wheelbase (cm): 285
Trunk (liters): 375

Performence:
0-100 acceleration: 5.9 seconds
Maximum speed: 230 mph

Competitors:
Audi A4, Volvo S60, Mercedes C Class

price:
NIS 295,000 (base), NIS 330,000 (test)

Source: walla

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