Dancers in blue celebrate X5 xDrive35d BMW Advanced Diesel with BluePerformance. (Bill Howard photo)
Bill Howard, BMW CCA
Jan. 13, 2008

DETROIT -- At an auto show this year awash in diesel engines, BMW’s first diesel offerings for the U.S. stand out for being unabashedly performance-oriented. “It is the cleanest diesel engine with the sportiest and best performance – in the world,” exulted Dr. Norbert Reithofer, chairman of the BMW AG board of management, at the introduction Sunday morning of the 335d sedan and X5 xDrive35d SAV at Detroit’s North American International Auto Show.


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