I have been looking all over the country for the right car and this one fell into my lap. I was resigned to a high mile (70k+) car and was about to place and offer on one in Texas, fully loaded with 3rd row. But I decided to hit up Craigslist one more time and I found one across the river in Vancouver, WA. While it was a little out of my price range, and didn't have a 3rd row I couldn't pass it up.

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It's a 2012 and I still don't know which version, Sport Activity or Premium. Prod date is 2011-09-01.

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Ok, let's be clear, the wife has clearly claimed ownership although she hasn't driven it much yet.

A lot more reading the manual is required for these vehicles.

Ok, why this one?

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Literally traded in by a little old lady on a new Cadillac. I suspect that nothing has ever been in the back seat, not even sure about the cargo area.

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The only things I can't figure out is an occasional backup camera error. The camera works but it shows an error. Maybe it can't calculate the turning lines?

And the seat cooler doesn't get the seat very cold. Maybe they aren't suppose to.

Not sure if I will ever get use to the butt kneading from the Active Seat, are you suppose to?

Next up after figuring out how to use the features it has is to get Carly and tweak some more things.

It's easier to list what it doesn't have, Sport Steering Wheel, 3rd row, Rear DVD... that might be it.

I do love the power as we had replaced a dead 540i Wagon with a Mazda CX-5 and missed the BMW horsepower. This one has enough. Plus it's the venerable straight 6.