Thanks for your post, and I wish you and your wife happy motoring in your pair of Peugeots. You’re absolutely right, and I have been telling the car makers for some time that their salespeople are scaremongering and convincing buyers to ditch diesel. I have undertaken anonymous mystery shops and the advice to ditch diesel happens time after time. I guess the manufacturers don’t really care which form of propulsion is sold, as long as they get a sale. But in your case it has meant that a life-long Ford fan has been angered so much that they’ve bought cars from a different marque. I’m sure that this won’t be easy reading for the Managing Director of Ford UK. Best wishes
F90 new M5. Will be available from September. Despite it's AWD it's 15 kg lighter than the previous generation. Power is 600 PS at 5600-6700 rpm, torque is 750 Nm at 1800-5600 rpm. It gets the ZF's popular 8 speed automatic instead of BMW's own 7 speed dual-clutch automatic. It's ironic that «simple» automatic gearboxes have developed so much in the last few years that many sport cars uses them instead of dual-clutch automatics. BMW says the biggest improvement is the AWD system and the new gearbox, they make the biggest part of being faster than the previous generation, not the more powerful engine. Top speed is 305 kph, 0-100 kph: 3,4 s.
Thanks for your post, and I wish you and your wife happy motoring in your pair of Peugeots. You’re absolutely right, and I have been telling the car makers for some time that their salespeople are scaremongering and convincing buyers to ditch diesel. I have undertaken anonymous mystery shops and the advice to ditch diesel happens time after time. I guess the manufacturers don’t really care which form of propulsion is sold, as long as they get a sale. But in your case it has meant that a life-long Ford fan has been angered so much that they’ve bought cars from a different marque. I’m sure that this won’t be easy reading for the Managing Director of Ford UK. Best wishes
F90 new M5. Will be available from September. Despite it's AWD it's 15 kg lighter than the previous generation. Power is 600 PS at 5600-6700 rpm, torque is 750 Nm at 1800-5600 rpm. It gets the ZF's popular 8 speed automatic instead of BMW's own 7 speed dual-clutch automatic. It's ironic that «simple» automatic gearboxes have developed so much in the last few years that many sport cars uses them instead of dual-clutch automatics. BMW says the biggest improvement is the AWD system and the new gearbox, they make the biggest part of being faster than the previous generation, not the more powerful engine. Top speed is 305 kph, 0-100 kph: 3,4 s.