128ti undercuts GTI

[Daz Auto]

Was speaking to the BMW dealer this afternoon. He said that my wife's new 2 Series Gran Coupe is so popular that BMW increased production to meet demand. Therefore...

Car was ordered at the end of October, with an estimated delivery of mid-March. Then updated to end of January. Car arrived in the dealership yesterday. Will be delivered to us next week. That will be a 9 week delivery time.

 

My last 2 VW cars have been - 9 months for Mk6 GTD and 5 months for Mk7.5 GTI PP.

I know Audi modified an order 'going to production' to bring forward the delivery time of the A3 - from 5 down to 3 months. Whatever the reason - top marks BMW.

[fredgroves]

I've been quoted March delivery for a 128ti. That's a bit quicker than I suspect vw might achieve.

[mike roberts]

I reckon you'll see that sooner, now we finally know what the situation is.

[ub7rm]

Once mine went into production it was basically 2 weeks from start to being in the dealers.  Was originally quoted end of December for delivery but in reality it was end of November.

[fredgroves]

Just been told the 128ti needs 98ron...

Obviously it will run on 95 but be maybe, what, 10% down on power because of it?

Meaning its no more powerful than the GTI?

[JoeGTI]

Here in Ireland you've no choice. Its 95 Ron or you walk. So every performance car here (not that there's that many) are running on the inferior fuel. I'm not sure it makes as much a difference as some would suggest. 95 will be fine.

[Exonian]

The only main difference you’ll notice with 95 is in very hot weather it’ll possibly mean slight ignition retardation to prevent linking. The rest of the time any power loss will be minimal I reckon. Unless the car is being driven very hard.

[fredgroves]

Yeah I know it will run, just wasn't expecting to see them say the quoted power figures were for 98ron.

I know the M135i or Golf R use 98, just didn't expect a 260bhp car to ask for it too...

[ub7rm]

Thats interesting, where did you see that?

[fredgroves]

I saw it posted on a BMW forum