Here Road and Track present a gasoline versus diesel shootout with the (generally accepted) top two vehicles in the entry level luxury sedan class, the BMW 3-Series and the all-new A4. They liked both vehicles, and both cost roughly the same, but it was a runaway win for the 335d. Talk about having your cake and eating it too -- the 335d sprinted 0-60 in 5.3s, pulled 0.92g's on the skidpad, returned a 70mph+ slalom, AND also returned a whopping 39% better fuel economy than the naturally aspirated A4 V6.
With the price of premium gas and diesel fuel now basically the same, is it time Americans started to embrace diesels?
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