Quick update - After much frenzied googling and almost making a vindecoder website think they were being ddos’d through overuse I have purchased an X5

E70 pre LCI sd
Black sapphire metallic
Comfort seats
Pano roof
Reversing cam

The comfort seats were the clincher for me as my back is ruined and ...

Sounds sensible, thanks for the info

Is anyone able to explain what active steering is and how it works? I can find lots of opinion about whether it’s any good but worryingly little about what is actually is! Is it a degree of rear wheel steering or is that nonsense?

Thanks, that’s really useful info.

So in summary-

E53 3.0D - M57 single turbo
E70 3.0SD - M57 twin turbo (both same size?), same as 335D from same era?
E70 35D - rebadged SD
E70 40D - N57 twin turbo, one small one big activated in sequence.

LCI brings better gearbox and updated nav as well as ...

Hi all,

I used to own an E53 3.0D M sport which I had no practical reason for but loved every minute of owning.

Now the combination of an impending new arrival to the family and a lack of properly working lower back mean its time to rejoin the X5 club.

Looking for a twin turbo E70 model (never ...