{"id":620460,"date":"2026-06-04T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620460\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:43:09","slug":"5000-miles-in-a-2005-bmw-3-series-can-you-daily-drive-a-modern-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620460\/","title":{"rendered":"5000 miles in a 2005 BMW 3 Series: Can you daily drive a modern classic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I ran\u00a0a 2005-model-year long-term test car was, more or less, in 2005. But here we are again. This is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/used-cars-used-car-buying-guides\/used-car-buying-guide-bmw-3-series-e46\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">E46-generation<\/a> BMW 330Ci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/best-cars\/best-coupes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coup\u00e9<\/a> and, I have to say, it&#8217;s rather good.<\/p>\n<p>At least it was when it was new. The 330Ci had a 3.0-litre straight-six petrol engine with no turbos and made 228bhp at 5900rpm and 332lb ft at 3500rpm. It had a six-speed manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive, hydraulically assisted steering, an actual knob to change the stereo volume and no bongs that went off when it couldn&#8217;t read a road sign properly. It is a car from a previous era, and if you think I&#8217;d like that sort of thing today, you&#8217;d be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last time I ran\u00a0a 2005-model-year long-term test car was, more or less, in 2005. But here we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}