You know, I've long been a fan of Porsche and will most likely be such, but the price of their service seems absurd.

A friend of mine owned 2008 911 Turbo, and he said that every service seems like he left a grand at the dealer, so it's a very expensive "warranty".
He just got rid of it because his warranty was running out and he said it needed brakes changed and sparkplugs replaced. Just the sparkplug replacement was going to be 1400$!

I reckon if I pay so much for the car and then they still charge so much for the service, it would be more aggravating than anything, to me personally.
So now, I'm somewhat hesitant about the 911 turbo.


Imagine then how much Porsche costs without a warranty!

I think with BMW at least offering the 4yr/50k or 6yr/100k free maintenance is a great plus and a benefit.

All of these cars are very expensive and equally good in their own way. So it really comes down to preference be it X5M, ML63 AMG, or Cayenne Turbo, but the fact that we won't have to pay for maintenance for the X5M, I believe, is a huge bonus!

So there is a dilemma!