It's so clean and rare, and you know the maintenance best, why would you ever consider the downgrade to a 325i?

I could understand if you had a base model 3.0i X5 pre-facelift, but seriously, a final production year 4.6is in Estoril? No competition.....

I mean kinda....e46 is no Honda either. A lot of the same issues. I had no qualms trading in my e46 for the 53. But, the E53 is on balance more expensive to maintain.