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05-30-2006, 10:36 AM
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There will be no M version of E70! Just "iS" with 400+hp V8 turbo - coming later, not at launch (December 2006). Press release with first info and pics coming in July / August. E53 production ends in September, E70 production starts in October.
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05-30-2006, 04:48 PM
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05-31-2006, 07:24 AM
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Diesels: BMW are aiming for bringing a 50-state diesel engine in US, not some partial solutions. The plan is late 2008, but can be delayed. A huge amount of BMWs are sold in CA & NY - so the diesel BMW will bring will fit standards of CA & NY. Yes, X5 is a contender for a diesel engine. But do not forget about X5 hybrid. 
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05-31-2006, 10:25 AM
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Mine is an X5 3.0d and it's really a very good motor, soft and noiseless. Besides, I can drive about 1000Kms per tank at 120-140Kms/hour. About the hybrid, I've read somewhere that BMW won't use that system, they want to use hydrogen. Mercedes is in the same line. Regards.
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05-31-2006, 05:14 PM
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Diesel
Fuel consumption for the 6 cyl TD is 27 around town and 33 on a run. I managed the 33 on a run from the UK down to Italy, including 130 kph autoroute and over the alps from Switzerland into Italy. Not bad for 2 tonne of 4X4.
It is nice to see the US start to get into diesels. The latest Euro diesels are superb bits of engineering. VW have just put their 2 lt 4 cyl TD into the Seat Leon with 170 bhp! and 50 mpg. The X5 3 lt TD has more torque than the V8 and of course the latest HDI TD's produce much less carbon emissions, on average 25% less than the equivelent petrol engine. Point to note is that the US gallon is smaller than the UK gallon, so maybe when were talking fuel consumption it might be easier to do it in lts per 100 km or 62 miles.
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06-02-2006, 12:06 AM
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Yes, There will be an ///M version of X5
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 * * * * * * * * * BMW executives have confirmed that an M version of the X5 is on the cards but, we’re told, there won’t be a current series M1. An M version of the next BMW X5 is highly likely, while an M version of the current 1 Series is highly unlikely. But a manual M5's a definite ... at least for the US. In Portugal last week for the international launch of the Z4M Coupe, president of BMW’s M division, Professor Ulrich Bruhnke said no decision to build an M version of the X5 had yet been made but the project was under development. Prof Bruhnke said that all M projects put to the BMW board for approval needed to go through a four-step process: from the original idea, development of that idea, a business case and, if approved, the building of a prototype. In the case of an M version of the X5, “We are at step two,” Prof Bruhnke said. He said he’d test driven a prototype X5 built by the M division “five or six years ago”, and been impressed. Former F1 driver and sometime M division test driver Hans Stuck had also been impressed after lapping the benchmark Nurburgring north circuit in 7m 49s. With the second generation X5 due for its northern hemisphere debut late this year – and spy photographs of the vehicle already appearing on the internet (no, we can’t yet show you pics here) – an M version of the current car’s obviously not going to happen. But Prof Bruhnke was bullish about an M version of the next X5 which, he said, some markets were expecting. To illustrate his point, Prof Bruhnke used a colourful example. “The Arabs went with camels into the desert to make decisions,” he said. “Now they go in X5s and Cayennes.” If BMW wanted to be competitive against the likes of the recently launched Cayenne Turbo S, he said, it needed an M version of the X5. Where the current range-topping X5 4.8is offers 265kW and 500Nm, the Cayenne Turbo S delivers 383kW and 720Nm. Obviously, though still well shy of the turbo Cayenne’s massive torque figure, the M5 V10’s 373kW and 520Nm in an M Car X5 would be closer to the mark. For obvious reasons, we’d say BMW would have a fight on its hands with Mazda if it followed current M car naming procedure and called the car the MX5. Prof Bruhnke said the next M car would be the M6 convertible, due “…in a few months”. “Others would follow,” he said. “We have some gaps in the M car lineup,” Prof Bruhnke said. But it was difficult to make a business case for an M version of the 1 series. “We’d need to invest almost as much as an M3,” he said. Another BMW executive at the launch later confirmed that there wouldn’t be an M1 version of the current generation 1 Series. “The 130i has enough power,” he said. In other M news, Prof Bruhnke said BMW would soon offer a manual version of the M5 in the US. Although the car has been criticised in some circles for being overly complicated in its current sequential transmission form, Prof Bruhnke said the decision to offer a manual M5 had been made because, “Owners want to show that they can handle a manual gearchange”. Source
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