{"id":2176,"date":"2021-01-10T00:41:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2021-01-10T21:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T21:14:10","slug":"top-gear-pits-the-bmw-535d-against-the-545i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"Top Gear pits the BMW 535d against the 545i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to 2005, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/top+gear\/\">Top Gear<\/a><\/em> blowhard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/jeremy+clarkson\/\">Jeremy Clarkson<\/a> was not a fan of diesel-powered cars. In fact, until July 2005 no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/diesel\/\">diesel<\/a> had ever turned a lap on the <em>Top Gear<\/em> test track. But then Jeremy met the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bmw\/535d\/\">BMW 535d<\/a>. Although the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bmw\/535d\/\">535d<\/a> is a bit heavier than the gas version, Jezza found that it still comported itself remarkably well even on a wet track. The 535d didn&#x27;t get quite as good mileage being thrashed on the track as it did <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2007\/12\/17\/in-the-autobloggreen-garage-2007-bmw-535d-yes-its-a-diesel\/\">in the ABG garage<\/a> but that&#x27;s to be expected. After Clarkson was done playing by himself, he took on the mighty Stig in a gas V8-powered 545i, and although the V8 beat the six-cylinder diesel, the 535d did remarkably well. Clarkson came away with a newfound respect for modern diesels. Check out the video after the jump.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2008\/03\/17\/top-gear-bmw-535-diesel-vs-535-petrol\/\">eGMCarTech<\/a>] <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/03\/18\/top-gear-samples-the-bmw-535d-vs-the-545i\/<\/p>\n<p>2008-03-18T12:05:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to 2005, Top Gear blowhard Jeremy Clarkson was not a fan of diesel-powered cars. In fact, until July 2005 no diesel had ever turned a lap on the Top Gear test track. But then Jeremy met the BMW 535d. Although the 535d is a bit heavier than the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15037,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/15037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}