Thank you, I have to say that I think it is a pretty big improvement in looks from my E65

BMW delivered this up at last today, will get some proper pics soon, 1st impressions are great

Andy

I will do, I am a BMW man through and through, have had just about every model, the 2007 730D I traded in last week was fantastic, probably should have kept it but it had 103k on the clock and I fancied a change, pretty sure the new 7 will be great.

I zeroed the trip yesterday and took my business partner for a 20 mile trip yesterday, drove 6 of those miles at 40mph on back roads and 14 miles on dual carriageway at 73mph exactly, when we parked back at work I had averaged 18.3mpg. This morning I zeroed and drove 10 miles to work, 30mph on 3 ...

Dealer is taking the X5 back and I am buying a '59 730D , should be happier with that

Called the dealer this morning, they are looking into what they can do for me, will have to wait until tomorrow as only a few sales guys in today.

Hi, power feels good, I did a gearbox reset which helped with take-off a lot, no smoke but I believe it has a DPF, no fault codes logged at all, can't believe that all E70 3.0 diesel give the economy I am getting.

Andy

Hi, no I did check this and it is set for UK gallons

Andy

Thanks, Anyone had experience of returning a BMW AUC car in the first few days? I paid £5k up front but £3500 was the deficit on my 7 series (had it on select and did 16k miles a year when i should have done 8k), then paid the £460 tax for the X5 too. I know I can cancel the finance agreement as I am ...

I have just been out and driven my Brothers route to work, 3 miles country road followed by 15.5 miles dual carriageway and then 1.5 miles city. On the way I set the cruise at 75mph and obeyed all other limits, on that trip I got 20.3mpg , with my 7 series I can guarantee that I would have got 32mpg ...

Hi Richard, thanks for that, I think the difference is that I have actually collected and am driving the car......

Not happy at all, after I posted this I searched the internet and found many people with the same complaint with the E70 diesel, quoted economy is virtually identical to the quoted economy of the 730D but real world it seems 30%+ worse. I will contact the dealer tomorrow and discuss my options, my ...

I just spoke to my brother who has a '54 E53 3.0D SE , he consistently averages 31mpg (checked on computer while I was on the phone) , I would say we have similar driving styles, we live in the same village in Norfolk and have similar routes to work (he has 7 miles further than me on dual ...

Hi, my 730D was 1875kg and the X5 is 2075kg

Figures quoted on parkers and by BMW indicate very similar economy.

Also, I owned an E53 3.0i Sport petrol X5 a few years ago that gave BETTER economy than this diesel, I am convinced something is wrong.

Andy

Hi all, I traded my 2007 730D for a 2007 E70 X5 3.0d SE this week (May 2007 build so £460 road tax, gutted). In my 7 series which I owned for 2 years (only changed as it had covered 103k miles) I averaged 28mpg as I do a lot of country road driving and don't hang around, on a motorway I would get ...