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Old 03-23-2011, 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted by JDM-20L View Post
We received a bunch of promotional material in the mail from BMW this morning for the X3... looks nice.

My old lady is considering trading the E90 320d for one.

Eight speed sounds promising.

May go down and see what the fuss is about.
It's far better looking in the metal that the E83 X3, IMO. Its general proportions are more like an E53 even if the detail is quite different. The 190kW/560Nm 30d sounds like a bit of a rocket (0-100km/h in 6.2 seconds) but it's still a month or two away. I was very impressed by the 20d I drove even if 135kW and 380Nm sounds a long way from the 30d's figures. It would do me for general driving as there are no traffic-lights out here!

The 28i (three-litre petrol six) looks like a stop-gap engine to me and probably won't be around all that long with the turbo four-cylinder petrol engines in the pipeline.

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