Fact: BMW’s diesel’s are tremendous.
Fiction: North Americans love diesels.
Fact: BMW is trying to make North Americans love diesels.
That’s basically how the diesel story goes. BMW isn’t the only one trying to make us love diesels as VW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz have all thrown their hats into the fray. The truth is, we are immensely stupid for not warming up to diesels and should consider oursleves lucky that said manufacturers haven’t given up on us.
And, to prove they haven’t given up, BMW has just announced that the new 2011 5 series will have a diesel varient to choose for us North Americans. The 5-series diesel is currently offered in Europe (where they do things properly) and it has been pretty successful so far.
But on top of that, BMW recently confirmed that two more diesels will be making their way to our shores. They didn’t drop any hints as to what they would be, but the only logical models left that don’t have diesel variants are the X6 and the 1-series.