Regular Car Reviews: 2005 BMW 330Ci

2005 BMW 330ci a used 330 is what you buy after your E30 gets brought up during marriage counseling for the life of me I cannot remember why it's called 330 C oh they never told me why for the life of me I cannot believe we came this far to review another BMW the 330 is a front engine rear wheeel drive 5 passenger four-door sedan price $40,000 engine type dual overhead cam 4 24 valve inline s aluminum block head Poe fuel injection 182 cubic in or 2,979 cubic cm 235 horsepower 5,900 RPM torque 222 L Feet 3 5 RPM transmission automatic sixspeed manual Dimensions got wheelbase got length got width got height curve we 33 7 0 to 65.6 seconds 0 to 11 15.3 seconds Satan is my god4 mile 14 .3 seconds of 97 mph top speed 152 mph breaking from 70 to 0 mph 158 ft record holding sk86 G's fuel ecy I'll hail Lucifer enough of that crap look around the cabin of this 330ci what don't you see you don't see cup holders do you this is a condescending move by Barbarian Motorworks giving us Americans such a central European layout I need to drink things I need to eat thing yeah yeah yeah tell your Autobon stories about how the Germans take driving more seriously than we do fantastic but it's 4 hours to Pittsburgh and I got a sheets burrito calling my name and I want to eat it while I make time sheets sheets sheets sheets in 2005 crash won best pitcher Oscar and BMW gave it a run for its money in the white guilt Department you could be forgiven for thinking that this car was all style and no substance given a silver bullet aesthetic that suggests there are mountains on the side to change blue when it's cold out but the 330ci is actually a smooth Driving Experience despite it's heavier than standard steering and its occasional sluggish maneuvering around corners one moment it's taking Corners smoother than a cowberry Cream Egg and the next it's chugging like a Newgrounds video on dialup it's a dichotomy that can hamper the Driving Experience if you're not driving manual but let's face it if you're not driving a BMW with a stick shift you're just steering it there is a general lack of room in the footwell but really this isn't the most spacious car in the world to be begin with it's supposed to fit five passengers but even then it's kind of a tight squeeze on top of that the small boot means low cargo capacity so if you're a gangster there's basically no room to dispose of the bullet strewn corpses of Cincinnati s Johnny cheesebox or Jimmy the rat BMW 330ci the official car of I'm not racist but this is the Austin Martin of empty threats if James Bond was an insurance adjuster it has a dial that lists MPGs but stops at 12 and never goes to zero it's an automotive representation of how schools drop all grades below 50% to meet ayp at the cost of real education of course when you buy a BMW 330ci new it'll run you around $40,000 and while I suppose that's fair for what you're getting beneath the hood you're really paying for the brand you're paying for the visibility of being seen driving a BMW BMW 330ci the official car of I'd like to speak to your manager it's the same reason why Altoids are so expensive they come in a fancy ass tin sure the mints taste like sidewalk chalk and can probably be used the same way but we're in an age that fetishizes brand recognition you could buy the bag of Frosted Flakes from the bottom shelf but your kid will probably start bitching about how there's not a cartoon tiger on the front and you could fill a Scrooge McDuck Vault with all the money spent on keeping up appearances with that said the 330ci does have reputation for reliability it's as Dependable as a durx condom or the imoderate fluctu price of Sear's Auto Center in many ways a BMW privileges aesthetic it's about the hopeful idealism you can experience when you go all in on a brand even if you have nothing to go on but reputation if you're buying a BMW odds are this is the only car you'll be able to afford it's sort of like the video game console Awards in grade school when you were a kid you were fiercely devoted to either PlayStation or Nintendo or Sega it was likely because your parents could only afford to get you one system so you had to put all your weight behind it because to do otherwise would be to admit you chosen wrong and God only knows when you're going to get the chance to do a doover maybe you'll end up satisfied with your 330 CI maybe you'll find out that the drive isn't as smooth as you expected that you won't be taking Corners like a professional driver on a closed course maybe you'll only get 21 MP gallon City just maybe you'll realize that its form wrote a check that its function can't cash and if that's the case this stops being the story about how function is corrupted for the sake of beauty and instead become a story about waiting for a moment that never comes I don't really see how that's a relevant thing ask I'm the image of success I pass my manager test I drive a 330ci

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Length: 5min 28sec (328 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 21 2014