The new Toy - with Pictures

[Minda]

Congrats and looks great mate

[x555]

Looks lovely mate cracking colour that aswell

[Jalf]

What is it thats up with the paint?

[X5Sport]

[quote=""Jalf""]What is it thats up with the paint?[/quote]

There's a one inch scratch right through the Clearcoat on the Driver's door and on the nearside rear quarter it looks as if there was debris still on the shell before it was painted so there are a number of bobbles and bumps. These should have been found earlier at the VPC in Thorne. Car being collected from me and I'm being loaned another X6 whilst mine is being repaired / repainted.

[Jalf]

[quote=""X5Sport""][quote=""Jalf""]What is it thats up with the paint?[/quote]

There's a one inch scratch right through the Clearcoat on the Driver's door and on the nearside rear quarter it looks as if there was debris still on the shell before it was painted so there are a number of bobbles and bumps. These should have been found earlier at the VPC in Thorne. Car being collected from me and I'm being loaned another X6 whilst mine is being repaired / repainted.[/quote]

Lets off road!

[Sanj]

Lovely car - very pleased for you! Now mods - BAN him!

[535dboy]

Looks good

Is there not a facelift X5, I see it has the older style wheels and not the wide oval exhaust?

[NewX5]

I thought the wide exhaust is only the M SPort?

[X5Sport]

X5 or X6?

The wide exhausts are on the X6 xDrive50i and the X6M only. I think there is now an optional accessory that can be dealer fitted to put the rectangular exhaust ends on the other variants.

Wheels were my choice.

[Lee4.8is]

Lovely motor,it looks really nice.

Must be great to have one with that little mileage.

Hope you have lots of fun in it,they are my absolute fave x series.

Happy motoring

[AW8]

Congratulations once again & thanks for sharing

[g60renshaw]

Very nice. I want that steering wheel in my E53

Jay

[Jalf]

Whats the word then after a couple of days with it?

[X5Sport]

Just got back from a 200 mile trip and she's very potent!! Not used anything like running in rpm (3,500 max) yet as you just don't need to.

Indicated 75mph is about 1600 rpm in 8th. Acceleration is pretty good - and I expect will be very rapid once fully run in.

The 8sp gearbox is the smoothest box I have ever had the pleasure of. The changes are almost imperceptible and come very close together - as you'd expect! The flappy paddles work great, though I would have expected one side to be 'Up' and the other 'Down', not both doing either.

Reverse needs a little more poking of the throttle than I'm used to with the X5 but it's not an issue - I just need to learn the car. The ride is a little firmer than the X5 Sport, but not as firm as our E46. She's also a little noisier tyres wise. Mine is shod with Dunlop runflats and they seem to be noisier than the Diamaris on the X5. Not bad noise, just a bit noisier - oh and the roof rails are definitelky noisier.

Cruise control works fine, HUD is useful, cameras all round very trick for parking, especially given there is very little rearward vision and at present I still don't know the lengths and widths by eye - she is big!!

Fuel comsumption already better than 33mpg at 270 miles. The comfort seats are superb, much better than those in the X5, and they're pretty good already. Everything is electrically adjusted.

The iDrive is something else entrirely but I left that to my co-pilot. Being able to look an address up on Google Maps and send it to the car Sat Nav System is neat trick too. The pro-sound pack was well worth the extra as the audio system is fabulous. DVD playback via the CIC produces excellent sound - albeit on a tiny weeny screen!! I did struggle to get the audio over Bluetooth working - and playback of the music on the iPhone 4 skips at regular intervals. No idea why, perhaps the phone itself is polling but it causes the audio to drop for a split second about once a minute or so. I have more time to play next week and I think it will be a case of sitting in the car with the book and just working through it. As an engineer, RTFM is tantamount to failure, but a different sort of engineer put the system together!! Would be nice to have a bigger music partition. 12GB is not a lot really.

All in all I'm very impressed so far. My wife loves it too, but won't drive it until it's been run in for some reason.

The scariest thing is the number of people on the motorway who just stared at the car - with admiration I think (or wtf is that!?). I guess the X6 is still a pretty rare beast on our roads?

@Jalf - do you have four lashing eyes in the corners of your boot? All the pics show them being there but there are none in mine. I may have to get the adjustable rails put in the boot if they only come with that option.

[Jalf]

I think the eyes you mention are an option but not sure what it's called, extended storage shadow reflex maybe
I get lots of looks and a few WTF looks too