BMW: 320tdes

Hi has anyone on this group got a 320 td es? I was thinking of getting one
and was lent one by my local dealer to test drive. Everyone told me that
once I had driven a BMW I wouldn't want to drive anything else. Well in
fact the reverse is true - I have never ever in my life driven a car with
such a terrible clutch. It is extremely heavy - snatchy - and with a lot of
play - making it tiring to drive in traffic.

Could it just be the car I was given to test drive? I am sure that if all
BMW's were like this no one would ever buy them!

Ann

"ann" <clara.co.uk> wrote in message news:<uk.clara.net>... 
Well, they're obviously not all like that given BMW's huge sales
volumes in Germany, the UK and the US . If you had a loaner, it may
well have been abused or had some other malfunction as a result of
cack-handed operation. I would definitely try another 320d/td manual
before writing it off. None of the reviews I have read - and there
have been many - have said anything about a poor clutch. Heavy,
perhaps, but not unusable.