X5 Facelift Pics and updates( w/ Leaked Official pics)

[RTC]

Originally Posted by pgaX5

Thanks, Le Mans. Your inside info has been really interesting and I have been following that thread, but hadn't seen anything concrete about timing. I'll take your word about the TT coming...so now the huge question for those of us in the non-diesel world is when this will happen. Guess I have until the 15th to make a decision. I'll continue to follow the facelift thread in the meantime.

TT is coming 100%, it has already been mentioned in internal documents at BMW Germany. So does the new 4.0 l Diesel with 306 HP.
I also heard that BMW will offer the X6 TT Performance Package as an option for the X5 TT too.
LCI start is still April 2010 but it could change to an earlier date.
Just a couple of days to go until the official press release.

[JCL]

Originally Posted by RTC

TT is coming 100%, it has already been mentioned in internal documents at BMW Germany. So does the new 4.0 l Diesel with 306 HP.

The new 40d diesel isn't 4.0 litres any more than the 35d is 3.5 litres. Both are 3.0 litre engines with different levels of tune, according to the reports on the 740d.

Should be interesting to see tests on the X5 40d, as the performance will be up another notch from the 35d, with 40 more hp.

[RTC]

Originally Posted by JCL

The new 40d diesel isn't 4.0 litres any more than the 35d is 3.5 litres. Both are 3.0 litre engines with different levels of tune, according to the reports on the 740d.

Should be interesting to see tests on the X5 40d, as the performance will be up another notch from the 35d, with 40 more hp.

Document indicated X5 4.0 l Diesel 306 HP. Can't say if it is the same engine used in the 740 but it would make sense.

[LeMansX5]

Originally Posted by RTC

Document indicated X5 4.0 l Diesel 306 HP. Can't say if it is the same engine used in the 740 but it would make sense.

Its the same engine as new 740d.

[Mr.Impatient]

Originally Posted by RTC

LCI start is still April 2010 but it could change to an earlier date. Just a couple of days to go until the official press release.

I certainly hope you are right about this, but does anybody know when in the last 20 years BMW released a new model year 8 months early? The more I think about it, the less likely it seems we would see the LCI TTs before fall 2010.

[mwares212]

If I remember correctly, the E60 LCI for 2008 arrived around April - May 2007.

[JCL]

Originally Posted by Mr.Impatient

I certainly hope you are right about this, but does anybody know when in the last 20 years BMW released a new model year 8 months early? The more I think about it, the less likely it seems we would see the LCI TTs before fall 2010.

I bought a 2008 535 (first model year of the new LCI model). It debuted in May 2007. In my case I waited for the September introduction of the manual transmission, but the automatics shipped in May.

Not as bad as Ford, who have debuted the next model year in January for some truck model lines, 11 months early.