Very nice, I love the exhaust tips

Damit, you got the heated steering wheel. I missed out on that. Cool exhaust.
Another thing I wish I got was the webasto option.
I drove the my sd X5 all weekend and was quite impressed with the performance. Average fuel consumption is 14l/100km over 1800km and thats with the wife driving 95% of the time.
Enjoy your X.

:thumbup: Great ride. Love the exhaust!

I am waiting as well. What would be nice is if the new diesel has the new iDrive. It seems odd to offer the new diesel in teh US only to add the new iDrive a few months later.

wow I thought I had a lead foot :) I've put 15000km's on my 3.0sd's odometer so far and the main consumption meter which I haven't reset since taking delivery (not the normal journey one) is showing 9.6L/100 over that 15000k's

Two different dealers have told me, the new I drive would be on all 09 X5's.
I've read on here, it won't be out until spring. I don't know who's right, but can't understand why there isn't any info from BMW on the release date of the diesel...

Craig

how did you configure it the way you want if you bought it used from a BMW employee? :confused:

Thats' an easy one to answer...
 

That's an easy one to answer:
There is 2 ways how to do:
First, (in my case) the BMW employee put his order on offer in the Internet (www.mobile.de) before Ordering. So I contacted him and we made a pre-contract and a upfront payment that I was going to buy the car after his "keeping limits" (usually 6 months / 6-9 thsd kms).
Secondly, if you hit the German BMW Website, you have the chance to configure a car you want and then BMW routes this configuration to their employees on a inner-company-site, so that every employee that is entitled for a employee car can check out if there is a car he likes to drive as well and would be able to sell afterwards. The contact between employee and private buyer is than made through BMW.

However, going for that buying model you can not finance your car nor there is a VAT shown, which makes it a "no-option" for most private buyers or companies.

@ all: Concerning the new I-Drive Controlling Unit: the German BMW Car Magazine states that the new I-Drive will only be available for the MY 2010 in the E70. Bad news though.

@ AzNMpower32: Nope, overall consumption is about 13,9l (=16,8 mpg) with me, but I'm usually quite fast on my way. If you keep pushing the pedal (speed 200-220 km/h, approx 124-136 mph), consumption goes up to 15l/100km (=15,7 mpg).
If you really let it go relaxed (about 130km/h = 80 mph), consumption is no less than 11,5 l (=22 mpg).
So 8,2 l / 100kms (=29,4 mpg) is a theoretically dream value. I know the way they test this - it's a european standard testing in a laboratory with the car being on "rolls" and driving winds made by ventilators. So nothing to do with reality but helps to compare cars against each other! Keep in mind that options make the car way heavier and so consumption figures go up.

Thanks to all for your nice comments. Makes me even prouder of that "dream machine" :).
Kindest regards - X5_Newbie

Hi X5_Newbie,

don't shock the US guys here with your consumption :). They can't drive the way we can do sometimes here. If you drive 100km/h (62 mph) over longer distance with the cruise control the 8l (26mpg) should be possible. O.k. that's not the funny way...but it's possible

Rgds
Sven

that sucks about the idrive and bmw making prospective buyers wait yet another year.