Experienced same as you when I was searching turned up lots of turds going up and down southeast looking. I saw a ton of terds before I bought my 48k mile 1 owner Estoril and local to boot with all records.

Being it was the brochure color which I think drove production numbers a bit more than Imola but still low I believe. Numbers dont matter anymore except to enthusiasts on the x5 so Ill just enjoy.

Has anyone ever found legit final production number for all the X5 iS models

To my knowlegde, no. :(

Don't know if this helps anyone but production numbers for 2005 4.8iS was 1492.

I got that number from the list on bimmerforums but it was old and he wasn't sure it was complete as run dates in Europe and US don't overlap exactly (I believe is what he stated)

BUMP for some updated production figures in original post :)

No info for Estoril 4.8is. [emoji22]. I’m guessing rare.


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In case it’s helpful, ZF produced a total of 10,824 5HP24 transmissions especially for the E53 4.6iS (i.e. transmission model number 1058 000 034). The units produced after August 2003 would have been for stock as spares.

https://i260.photobucket.com/albums/...psat9pwywb.jpg

This compares to over 85,000 transmissions produced for the much more common 4.4i (ZF model number 1058 000 029).

Phil

There're a bunch of Titanium Silver "iS" and they're even mentioned in your post?

Yep, my exact question. I emailed BMW archives and they said the 4.6is line was not old enough for them to have the numbers (WUT?) - I was then redirected to another area of BMW where they said it was against policy to share production numbers...which is dumb and weird.

There are SOME numbers floating around X5world era. I doc'd a few

I also have a PDF of all X series sales from 2003-08, but no idea how to link it up here.



Official 4.8is production was 4/04, still crazy some made it that long. But also crazy we had some 01 productions! 1 October build was a member a long time ago too.