my X5 "found me". Wasn't on my radar. I had a settlement check from a lawsuit that was to the dollar what my X5 cost including tax and title. It's the perfect car for me so I'm done looking. Mine is '01 with about 196,000 but I bought 6 years ago with 128. It needs a fair amount of suspension work and prob an OFHG (though the leak has almost completely stopped with some AT-205).

Wife's car also 01 e53 starting leaking oil everywhere at once (suspect plugged CCV blew out every possible oil seal) so we traded that one in on '12 X5.

I have no interest in learning a new platform and will surely upgrade to e70 when my 01 is done but I feel another 50-60,000 miles are coming out of this one. Engine performance like the day I bought it almost exactly 6 years ago.

I have a smidge of performance envy with wife having 50i; wow it's amazing. Strangely other than occasionally wishing for more passing power I'm totally ok with the 3.0i power. (although the first time I took a freeway onramp with my car after doing a few full power on ramps with 50i and 35i, I laughed out loud the whole way up).

(I got up to 80 at the end of the 1/4 mile or so which was more than enough, but with wife's car, the DSC kicked in when the car chirped the tires at about 80 about 2/3 the way up the same ramp).

Where my car Speedo goes 10-20-30-40 hers goes 20-40-60-80. It's very close to twice as quick to speed.

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2011 E70 • N55 (me)
2012 E70 • N63 (wife)