This article is rubbish - check the video max accelaration "3.0sd from 0 - Vmax" that I posted some days earlier in here... if you stop it comes out to 7.2secs for the 0-100km/h...
Also taking the board computer for measuring the actual consumption figures does not show me too much of a deep journalistic approach...

However - one question we discussed in a German forum today: how come, you guys down under have the "old" twin-turbo engine with 200kW/272 bhp instead of the 210kW/286 bhp that we have here in Europe since modell year 2007 in 5-series and the X3/X5? Does anyone know?

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