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BMW 320d Touring xDrive: Better than the best car of the year

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You might well ask why it has taken so long for BMW to introduce a four-wheel drive version of its 3 Series Touring.

After all, the Munich marque has been making wagons for a very long time. It has also been offering a sophisticated four-wheel drive system, XDrive, on its crossover models since 2003.

Given XDrive is largely engineered to enhance dynamics on-road rather than off, you would think the two would have been deemed a natural fit a long time ago.

You would be correct. In fact, four-wheel drive 3 Series models are nothing new for BMW. It has produced them since 1987 in Europe or with XDrive for the best part of a decade. What is new, however, is a 3 Series XDrive for export in right-hand drive. So welcome

Read more http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/bmw-320d-touring-xdrive-better-best-car-year-weekend-review-dc-141158
 
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