Compared with five other vehicles in the compact class, the BMW 1 Series has emerged as the best vehicle in terms of heating and cooling operation. Although in the visitor of some great competitors, the BMW one Series manage to score high in 2 of the three categories.

German magazine Auto Bild has put the six cars through extreme testing, from minus 20 to plus twoscore degrees Celsius at BMW's energy and ecology testing middle in Munich. So which motorcar heats, melts and cools the all-time?

The vehicles included in the test were VW'southward best seller Golf Half dozen (petrol and diesel), Opel Astra, Citroen C4, KIA cee'd and BMW 116i. All vehicles were equipped with the optional automatic climate command and have been tested with the gasoline engine, the Golf game TDI was the merely vehicle tested for both configurations.

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Nether different weather condition, the vehicles accomplished mixed results – Citroen C4 heats the fastest, just the disappoints with cooling in the summer. Exactly the contrary is truthful of the Opel Astra which is much better in summer than in the winter. What is surprising is the weak operation of the VW Golf which receives for both gasoline and diesel variants merely ii out of v stars and thus at the end of the field ranks.

Overall, Citroen C4 leads with iv out five stars, followed past the BMW 1 Serial which received iii.5 of v stars. The 116i scored iv out of five stars in cooling and heating, and 3.five out of five stars in defrosting.

Total review at Auto Bild (translated with Google)

[Via BimmerToday ]