2011 BMW 335i is Definately a Driver Car

Now BMW has released images and info on the face-lifted 2011 3-series coupe and convertible, which involve not just new looks, but also the 2011 BMW 335i swapping its awesome twin-turbo motor for one with just one turbo. We starting to run out of new things to say about BMW’s venerable 3-series, and the latest BMW 335i sedan lives up to the ongoing tradition of oneness between driver and machine that you probably expect to hear about every time you read a review of this latest BMW 335I sedan.

Maybe you can find some things to moan about when it comes to the BMW 335i looks and proportions, but as usual, that’s a matter of subjective taste; fire up the 3.0-liter turbocharged I6, and that all tends to go away. This BMW 335i is definitely a driver’s car, and in reality, it provides all the performance you could really ever need or even ask for in a road car.

The big news, though, is the new N55 engine, a direct-injection, twin-scroll single-turbocharged inline-six that replaces the twin-turbo engine in the cars with identical output figures. The BMW 335i will be offered with a choice of six-speed manual or six-speed automatic transmissions.

Sadly, BMW won’t offer the BMW 335i with an N55/eight-speed automatic combo, as is planned for the upcoming 535i GT, but BMW will continue to make xDrive all-wheel drive available on the 2011 335I BMW Coupe.

No matter the transmission or to how many wheels the power is delivered, every BMW 335i promises to be plenty quick: BMW estimates that the manual-equipped rear-wheel-drive BMW 335i coupe can accelerate to 60 mph in 5.3 seconds, with the drop top requiring 5.5 seconds, add another 0.2 second to each time for the automatics.

Even quicker is the 2011 BMW 335I xDrive Coupe, which overcomes all-wheel drive’s inherent weight penalty and hustles to 60 in a claimed 5.2 seconds in manual form and 5.3 with the auto. Those stats seem conservative to us, as we’ve repeatedly seen high fours from 335i coupes in the past; we expect to squeeze similar numbers from the 2011 BMW 335i model.

One more subtle change to be seen first in this cars specs is the use of Sachs dampers at all the 2011 BMW 335i corners. The objective of the use of Sachs dampers in the 2011 BMW 335i is a more linear cycle of compression and rebound across the low-speed bumps in town, as well as over the high-speed bumps of the highway.

The system of coil spring and piston within the 2011 BMW 335i dampers has given way to a stack of thin washer like discs that produce more progressive fluid flow and less vibration over everyday pavement imperfection

Pricing 2011 BMW 335i

If it’s still hard to fathom how BMW can make so many changes to the BMW 335i engine without finding even one additional horsepower, a second turbo’d inline-six is planned for the upcoming 2011 BMW 335i coupe and convertible, which share many of their performance-enhancing components with the new Z4 sDrive35is. The BMW 335I price for the coupes and convertibles remains a secret, but given the subtlety of the changes, we don’t expect a huge increase when the 2011 BMW 335i hit U.S. roads this March.