Welcome back everybody. Mark with exotic Car Play Place, thanks for coming back.
Today we're gonna talk about four of the most reliable 2018 BMWs that you
can buy today. There's a lot of great cars out on the market, you want to make
sure you get the right car for your dollars, so let's take a walk around and
we're gonna talk about the top four that I have listed. Let's go. The first one on
my list is actually this car right in front of me. The X1 with the 28i,
so the X-drive 28i, which represents the all-wheel-drive version. Now of course
this car as a newer engine, the old engine was the N20 and it's been replaced. Now the
engine in here is the B48 which is actually as inline four-cylinder
twin-scroll turbo that produces about 220 horsepower and about 258 foot-pounds
of torque. It has a transversely mounted motor, of course, driving all four wheels
because it is the X Drive, and the beauty thing here, because it's an x1, you would
think that it's low scale entry level, which it sort of is, but in the true BMW
fashion they do not chance, it's one of these vehicles that you get inside,
and initially it looks a little bit more basic, but when you really look around it
actually has a lot of great features, chalked into it. I mean you have the
latest I Drive system, you have things like the panoramic sunroof, over
here this thing is just gloriou,s here lots of room, lots of light, in there for
you and your guests, so reasonable wheel packages, is always some great
wheel options for this car. You've got the dual exhaust here, your
the colored handles, look at these mirrors, even you've got the signal
lights on the mirrors, everything about this car reeks in higher quality. Nice
LED headlights, they're not the adaptive, but that's fine.
Nice spoiler I mean everything is definitely upscale and certainly
represents the brand very well and because it is entry-level and because
it's using more of the basic drivetrain, the end
you know is not stressed out so this car, will run very well, very long, has great
fuel economy, and so far represents great value but as well likely to be
very reliable. I mean years will tell as years pass how reliable this new engine
is for these cars, but so far this seems to be a very reliable setup, and it
happens to be great value at forty thousand dollars. The second most
reliable BMWs on my list go to the 2 Series, and the 2 Series represent great
value, and actually brings drivers back to what made passionate drivers in
the first place, and that was a smaller size, more sporting type of chassis, which
you can now find in the 2 Series cars. So as you see here we've actually got two
versions, we've got the 240, and we've got the 230, the two 3 represents the inline
4-cylinder twin-scroll engine that produces 248 horsepower while the 240 is
the straight six twin-scroll engine that produces 335 horsepower. So if you want
335 horse or you want the two and a half you know there's your difference, that's
the difference between the two cars, now you can get these in all-wheel drive of
course, you've got the X Drive, or you can get them and this one's an X Drive as
well as you can see here just a little more hidden. So in the X Drive you
represent the all-wheel drive, now the X Drive is typically tied and associated
with the 8-speed automatic transmission. Now if you want the rear-wheel drive
version of this, so you're only driving the back wheels of these cars, that can
be had with a 6-speed manual gearbox, so depending on your driving preferences
you're looking more of the sporty car, you typically associate the a
240 with a manual 6-speed gearbox, that'd be a great little sports car. If you want
something that's more of a nice little comfortable driver that's more practical
for poor weather you can get yourself a 230 which is a very very reliable little
setup of course all-wheel drive with the automatic very drivable daily usable
vehicle and so far time will tell but so far these vehicles seem to be quite
reliable a lot of issues with any of these now
the beauty with any of BMWs and the two series are no different is the quality
of fit and finish you can get a host of different colors you get white you've
got a white exterior with a beautiful red interior you get all kinds of
different color combinations but of course in BMW fashion everything is such
high-quality soft touch materials high quality plastics everything's really
really well made and that's just not including the products that are you
wrapped in leather of course you know like seats and door panels these are in
line with every other BMW product and are a very high quality now if you want
to stay away from high performance cars that lack reliability stay away from the
M version I mean if you want to go fast and speed is your game you get the M
version of this car that would be a lot of fun but don't expect the same level
of reliability that you're going to get from the little 230 I and so my third
choice actually goes to the tried-and-true 3-series BMW which have
been around a long long time now it should be noted very very soon there
will be a brand new 3-series car released
but this is a 2018 and we're talking about that right now
so they can be had in many variations different motor setups you can get 320 s
328 330s 3 40s a lot of different options up to and including 2018 but in
2018 we'll give you the engine configurations and it goes like this
now generally as a rule the cheaper the car the lower end usually the more
practical and the more reliable so let's start with the 320 which features a tan
inline-four engine that produces about a hundred and eighty four horsepower then
you move up to the two liter inline-4 with the twin scroll turbo in the 328
that produces about 240 horsepower which really lights your day that's the same
engine in the X 28 I X Drive x1 that we just discussed so that's another option
and then of course you talk about the big brother we are talking now about the
340 right here which is the old replaced essentially the 335 the old 335 has come
and gone now and now it's replaced by the 340 as you see right here of course
the 340 has 335 horsepower now and is really the next best thing to an M car
without the totally the M car levels of you know impracticality or lacking and
reliability of course the M cars you only get on the m3s you can only get in
two-wheel drive the beauty here with the 340 is you can have the 340 you can have
very very high levels of performance with 335 horsepower in the 340 but you
can have all the nice touches this one's equipped very nicely with this beautiful
wrapped exhaust Akrapovic exhaust of course you've got a rear splitter some
really nice features you've got the side splitter here and performance obviously
M package on this car but you can have all this and have a car that's all wheel
drive in great use for the winter time so the 340 represents the best
performance bargain and still maintaining some level of reliability
and of course functionality because now you can use this car in a winter time as
well when you've got snowy roads poor driving conditions you can
any day of the year so again as usual typical BMW can find a lot of different
options high quality finishing as you would expect and as since it's a
3-series it's sort of middle-of-the-road because you've got the 1 2 3 Series cars
you go for 5 and and the list goes on 6 7 of course and now there's an 8 as
well so really this is kind of lower to mid level as far as the BMW lineups go
but it also gives you some of the executive feel to it that being said it
is a smaller car it's not going to feel quite the same as a 5 Series but it
still has some of the high quality features and elements like the leather
the soft touch plastics a lot of these same electronic features are featured in
these cars versus the cars you might find in some of the 5 Series versions
great value and relatively high levels of practicality and they are quite
reliable so far anyway time will tell and then my next choice goes to the 5
Series that's the 4th best most reliable BMW today that you can get now it goes
it's come a long way since the bangl era the east sixties you know those cars
were not known for reliability then we moved into the F 10 generation which was
vastly improved but still a work in progress
now we're into finally into the G 30 chassis right here in a 2018 and and has
come a long ways both in styling as well as reliability so we've got a couple
options that I would promote the 550 generally I would stay away from high
performance turbocharged v8 in the 4.4 I would jot dodge away from that as well
as the m5 because they are obviously big dollar cars big performance lots of
stress and strain on the engine generally a lot more cost involved in
maintaining that but there's two cars that stand out in my mind one of them is
the b48 engine it's the 2 litre inline-four that is featured in this car
here it is the 530 the 530 is a great machine that's the turbo inline 4 now
this car is not going to light your day it's not going to be a rocketship but
what it is going to do is travel commute you and your family or your friends or
your executive partners very very comfortably you have the upscale look
the upscale fit and interior styling but without paying
the full cash you don't want to spend the big bucks this is a great way to
enter into the 5-series brand into the executive saloon you've got that with
this very very reliable drivetrain in this car yes you've added some extra
additional electronics so as a rule it's not going to be as reliable as the
3-series as a rule because of additional electronic features but the drivetrain
is the same so it's the same engine that comes out of the 3-series which is
already known to be very very reliable so this here is my first choice for most
reliable five series cars and these actually start around 63 thousand bucks
which is a relative bargain when you look at some of the other options now a
lot of the domestic products as well as a lot of the Japanese cars are coming up
in value they still don't match the BMW quality of fit and finish and therefore
this is a very very good purchase in the sense of you know practicality
reliability and actually value for your dollar for a premium luxury sedan and
where the 530 has 248 horsepower we are now looking at the 540 which is my
second choice this one is a better compromise for for again performance /
reliability here is the 540 which is the inline six twin scroll engine that
produces 335 horsepower far more power but similar levels of performance and
reliability all wrapped into one beautiful package of course premium
upscale finishing on both the exterior and interior you've got lots of nice
design touches great wheel packages again you've got those beautiful LED
headlights that just are spectacular typical kidney grilles found on these
cars as well overall what an amazing machine and great value so these cars
are featured both with the 8-speed ZF auto transmission or a 6-speed manual
for those that like to roll their gears they like to shift through the gears you
can get the six-speed manual like I said for the sporting experience you may look
at the manual I know in Europe that's more popular in North America people
generally like to go with the autos either way there's options great car
we've got the all-wheel drive setup here 540 makes it for performance nice
touches look at the exhaust bits on there as well what a beautiful machine
great value great performance so everybody I really hope you enjoyed that
video I just wanted to share with you some of the most reliable 2018 BMWs
available in the market today and of course if performance is what you're
after we've got other lists for that but for
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