Anyone waiting for their 2011 Alpine White X5 to be delivered?

[Kloogy]

Originally Posted by BGM

Funny. It must have been a short haul for a dealer to dealer swap because BMW always uses enclosed carriers when shipping. This was a normal open car carrier.

Not true. My friend owns 3 open transport carrier trucks and he deals with BMW all the time. Sometimes they use enclosed, sometimes open.

[BGM]

Originally Posted by Kloogy

Not true. My friend owns 3 open transport carrier trucks and he deals with BMW all the time. Sometimes they use enclosed, sometimes open.

I'm talking about long haul.

[Kloogy]

Originally Posted by BGM

I'm talking about long haul.

That's what I meant. He is based out of So Cal, and is currently in Tennessee.

[BGM]

Originally Posted by Kloogy

That's what I meant. He is based out of So Cal, and is currently in Tennessee.

Kloogy--let's put this in your perspective: you are in San Diego. If you ordered your car from your local dealer and it's in the plant in SC ready to be delivered to you in CA---is your expectation as a paying customer on a $70K car that it will be shipped open air across the country ?

[BGM]

Originally Posted by Kloogy

Not true. My friend owns 3 open transport carrier trucks and he deals with BMW all the time. Sometimes they use enclosed, sometimes open.

Read all the way down to the section once a car is being shipped here in the US:

How-To: Follow a new BMW from Order, to Shipping and to Delivery

And when I bought my '08 4.8 from Beverly Hills BMW they said they will only ship enclosed long haul due to risk (pretty obvious). When mine got here to Dallas from Los Angeles the dealer already had 3 brand new BMWs inside---2 going to Houston dealers (one being an X5M) and the other to Louisiana.

[ard]

Originally Posted by BGM

Read all the way down to the section once a car is being shipped here in the US:

How-To: Follow a new BMW from Order, to Shipping and to Delivery

And when I bought my '08 4.8 from Beverly Hills BMW they said they will only ship enclosed long haul due to risk (pretty obvious). When mine got here to Dallas from Los Angeles the dealer already had 3 brand new BMWs inside---2 going to Houston dealers (one being an X5M) and the other to Louisiana.

Wait. That is your definitive reference on BMWs exclusive use of enclosed carriers?

We already know that BMW changed carriers a year or so ago, and BMT is not the carrier any more.

But we are off track...wonder who's X5 is lying there?

[LeMansX5]

Originally Posted by ard

We already know that BMW changed carriers a year or so ago, and BMT is not the carrier any more.

They may be using someone else on west coast.

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[motordavid]

That orig Yahoo article said that the pic of the tossed E70 was taken in Indiana, fwiw.

As for open vs closed car hauling, I shot this pic, (and posted it here on the Board), last summer. We were on I-77 north, near the NC/VA border; there were 3 trailers full of E70s...they did not appear to be making 'local/short haul' deliveries, as we were ~180 miles north of S'burg, SC.

Back to the news...
GL, mD

[LeMansX5]

Originally Posted by motordavid

That orig Yahoo article said that the pic of the tossed E70 was taken in Indiana, fwiw.

As for open vs closed car hauling, I shot this pic, (and posted it here on the Board), last summer. We were on I-77 north, near the NC/VA border; there were 3 trailers full of E70s...they did not appear to be making 'local/short haul' deliveries, as we were ~180 miles north of S'burg, SC.

Back to the news...
GL, mD

I guess I missed that. Cost cutting takes its strike.....ouch...an X5M... I had seen these open BMW transporters in Europe, not in US. Any pics from side of truck.....Who is the transporter?

[Kloogy]

Originally Posted by motordavid

That orig Yahoo article said that the pic of the tossed E70 was taken in Indiana, fwiw.

As for open vs closed car hauling, I shot this pic, (and posted it here on the Board), last summer. We were on I-77 north, near the NC/VA border; there were 3 trailers full of E70s...they did not appear to be making 'local/short haul' deliveries, as we were ~180 miles north of S'burg, SC.

Back to the news...
GL, mD

Your eyes are deceiving you. Those are Kia's. Stop lying to us.