I can't keep up with all these X5M and 3.5D threads
 

I'm only 38 but do I sound old when I say "Whatever happened to the good ole' days when there was just the 3.0 and 4.4 ?" ? :dunno:

I would say you have Alzheimer's cause there was also a 4.8is...

What happened to the good ol' days when BMW didn't make trucks and just focused on the core: sedans, tourings, coupés, and cabriolets.

I'm only 20 going on 79.

We owned, and loved, our 2001 X5 4.4i for 8.5 years BUT...

Although we have owned at least one BMW since the late 70's, the only reason we considered ANY BMW as it's replacement, was because of the X5 35d. We didn't even test drive a gasoline engine X5. They simply don't meet our expectations for both performance and mileage.

Funf Dreisig

But even that took a few years to be released. I'm talking about the "originals" though--you know kickin' it Old School.

I'm on 8.5 years on mine as well. Waiting to see what I want to do as far as getting the current e70 V8 (or TT if it comes out) but it's hard to part with it when I get stopped in the parking lot at a concert last Sat (Incubus) and a girl thought it was only 4 years old--then my dad came in from Chicago this week and said it looked like new. :pullhair:

I know the feeling. We looked at the E70's when they first came out and decided to keep our 4.4i for at least another 5 years. After all we were still getting compliments on our 'new' X5. But a kid in a pickup ended that plan in a heart beat by rear ending it at 60mph (ouch) :yikes:

Luckily by that time BMW had added the 35d to the line up and we were able to get past the fact that the E70 is both too big and way too computerized for our taste.

FWIW we regularly keep vehicles for decades. But I figure the E70 is a 5-7 year vehicle at best. Too much plastic and way too much electronics to maintain after the original and extended warranties expire. :(

Funf Dreisig

Well here's my old baby, 7 years old with 165,000km on it and it mint condition without a scratch! People didn't believe me when I told them it was that old and had that kind of mileage...Sold to a good friend who will take good care of it! :wavey:

yawn!

even bigger yawn!

:)

Don't make me cry. I don't want the day to come when they tell me this and that electronic part will cost hundreds to replace, and then another few hundred in labor because it needs to be reprogrammed.

Are E53 owners coming across such problems yet? Not exactly identical but I need a measuring stick.