Thread: N20 or N55
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      08-10-2016, 09:40 PM   #20
englishguy84
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Are you buying or leasing? CPO or new?

If buying CPO, get the 335i. N55 is a tested engine, doesn't have a lot of issues, and lots of fun. Price won't be as big a deal because the huge depreciation hit already happened. I've been a passenger in one. Wish I had bee in the market when it was still being produced.

If buying new, it's going to depend on price more. If you can swing it, I would get the 340i because the B58 has been out an extra year--the 330i is brand new. Unless you can find a leftover 328i on the lot that's spec'd the way you want. If you can, there would probably be a great deal to be negotiated on a leftover and you'd have the more proven N20 vs B48.

If leasing--whichever you can afford that makes you happy. 340i might be overkill. Up to you. You only live once.
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