På trim blir man ju :)
BMW 535d
1,000 issues on & we’re still breaking records.
We celebrate 1,000 issues of Auto Express in record breaking style.
Auto Express is in the record books! Not only have we reached a landmark issue, but, in order to celebrate our 1,000th edition, we have established our own motoring world first – in a diesel!
Yet setting a record in a production car isn’t simply a matter of removing the speed limiter and seeing how fast the vehicle will go. The regulations allow a certain amount of modification – so we called in engine tuning expert, DMS Automotive, which gave us the car and tweaked the motor.
The result was 344bhp and 638Nm of torque. “We could have gone higher,”
lol )
We were ecstatic – we’d hoped to come close to 170mph(280km/h) but had thought getting beyond that in a 3.0-litre diesel executive saloon would be a struggle. The 535d surpassed our expectations, recording the same top speed as Porsche claims for its 911 Carrera 4. But how long will the record stand? Audi recently announced its R8 TDI. At the moment it’s a concept, but we have a feeling the BMW won’t hold the cards by the time Auto Express celebrates its 2,000th anniversary!
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoe … _535d.html
Men jag ska njuta en stund till,,får se till sommaren :)
Ha en underbar kväll! //