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by X5Sport » Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:09 pm
If you can, go for the 2010 model year onwards 30d or 40d. They have the 8-speed transmission not fitted to the earlier 30d and 35d. It makes a very sublime way to drive as the acceleration is pretty much seamless from standstill to "Good Afternoon Officer, is there a problem?".
The later versions are also less to tax and marginally more economical, and have better electronic toys on the iDrive system inc Bluetooth music streaming support, DAB, bigger screen, hard drive based Nav, and on board music storage up to 11GB (I think - never used mine for that).
The turbos in the 35d are of the same size running in parallel I believe whereas the 40d/50d uses dissimilar sizes in sequence under computer control.
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