2014 BMW 328i xDrive Sports Wagon - Car and Driver
When BMW stopped selling the hatchback ti model in the U. S. in 1999, there were no apologies made. Then came the contradiction: BMW immediately brought the 3-series wagon to our shores for the first time. Of course it is. And, of course, Americans do not dislike hatchbacks any more than we dislike dark bread. White might be the bestseller, but once a taste for something more develops, it’s hard to give up. Which is presumably why BMW continues to offer a 3-series wagon here. The gasoline and diesel engines are both turbocharged, 2. 0-liter four-cylinders, and regardless of which one is powering your 3-series wagon, you will get an eight-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive. The same 240-hp, gas-powered four (making 255 lb-ft of torque) propels the 328i xDrive wagon through the quarter-mile in 14. 3 seconds, just 0. 1 second behind the last 328i sedan we clocked , that one a rear-driver. As would be expected, the wagon body shifts weight distribution a bit, from 50. 4 percent over the rear axle of the sedan to 51. 7 percent here. The slalom speed drops by six-tenths of a mile per hour, but the wagon drives nearly identically to the sedan. Source: www.caranddriver.com
