Forgive my utter directness but for me, your earlier comments sounded like it was filled with a hypocritic agenda bent on finding fault with a minor omission in an otherwise near fault-less (ok, it not's perfect either) car in terms of practicality and peformance. And you achieve this propaganda by proclaiming yourself to be the moral champion for the environment whilst probably well aware that petrol engines emit more hydrocarbons into the atmosphere than it's diesel counterpart. And that was my ONLY contention with your comments and similarly, you have also failed to address this argument convincingly too.
FYI (no, it does not stand for F*** You, Idiot -
), if you read the UK e90 forum, where the oil burner fraternity is thriving, the DPF gets clogged up pretty frequent, even with Euro4. The engine does try self cleaning at the expense of performance and over time (esp when the car is seldom hard-driven), it clogs and becomes a very expensive component to replace. So, there, even Euro4 diesel does that to the DPF. Imagine what it could hv done for our cars with Euro 2M - it would have been clogged up by the first km (ok, this is an exaggeration).
For me, I am glad BMW Malaysia left it out and this has not only saved us the head-ache and our wallets, but they have also very smartly LOCALISED (and NOT detuned) the turbo diesels to work-around our industry shortcomings. So, if you have a gripe to pick, it's not the 320d or BMW - just vote wisely in the next general election.
And no, localisation is not a crime. For example, KFC's hot and spicy chicken variety is only available for malaysian tastebuds and not elsewhere. Can we then argue that it's polluting the boiler and oil, resulting in more grease by product, hence polluting our drains?
lastly, no malice intent and I apologize if I have offended.
