No, look at my post again, it said production date 10 (Oct), 2000!

It was a 3.0i.

The earliest 4.4i I ever saw was when BMW was doing "performance driving school" at the Tustin MCAS base and it was a pre-production X5 4.4i in April 1999! It was Sahara Beige and I took pictures of it with my "old school" camera.

I was thinking at that time (after driving M-cars and brand new E46 328i sedan) why is BMW doing a SUV??!!

The first BMW X5 4.4i I saw on the road was July 1999 (Titanium Silver)!!

Also, there was a special Neiman-Marcus edition X5 4.4i with special paint color (can't remember what it was) on sale for Dec 1999!!

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