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Hi! Ex-Lander and Ex-E70 owner

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 8:26 pm
by Spuffington
Hi guys!

Just thought I'd say a quick hi since I've rudely dropped in to post on the BMWLand thread, but I'm not a total stranger since I found this site very useful indeed when doing research on buying my first E70 in 2009.

I've now had two E70's and now back without one, which is pretty upsetting.

Bought my first E70 back in 2009, as above, which was a black late-2007 3.0d SE Dynamic. Lovely car which I had for 18months before being under the thread of redundancy and sold out. I then had two E60's between then and Jan 2014 - a 535d and 550i and then had one of my favourite cars to date; a Sparkling Bronze with Oyster leather 40d SE Dynamic LCI. Absolutely loved it - the perfect family car and GT and did 14k in it over 16months before pxing it just two weeks ago for a F20 118d M Sport.

Reason for the drastic change was because I also bought a 2001 Hymer S640 Starline motorhome which basically took up all the GT capabilities of the X5 and therefore just leaving the short journeys which the X5 was less than ideal for.

Anyway, as much as I love my 1er (for very different reasons than the X5), I absolutely loved my X5 to bits and having had a combined 3+yrs of ownership of both pre and post LCI cars, I'm looking forward to being able to contribute a bit to the forum.

A couple of pics....
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Re: Hi! Ex-Lander and Ex-E70 owner

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 8:59 pm
by 535dboy
Welcome aboard !

Now you are on here we will get you in that porker yet!!

PVR has a 50th anniversary beetle, bought to match his age!

Re: Hi! Ex-Lander and Ex-E70 owner

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 9:01 pm
by Spuffington
Ha ha!  :))

Sadly that Porker is further away than it's ever been, what with the arrival of the other German tank (the 4.6t behemoth!).

However, I am booked on a Porsche GT day at Silverstone on 9th of June, courtesy of my Uncle who bought a 991 TurboS recently..........only to find it was a lemon and px'd it for an i8 6 months later. It might have been a lemon, but positively terrifying at anything more than quarter throttle!  :blink:

Re: Hi! Ex-Lander and Ex-E70 owner

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 9:19 pm
by pvr
Excuse me 535, I was 48 when I got that 50th - so it is a bit shocking that with your profession you got it that wrong  :))

To the OP - I love both those colours, great looking cars.

Re: Hi! Ex-Lander and Ex-E70 owner

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 10:15 pm
by 535dboy
[quote="pvr"]
Excuse me 535, I was 48 when I got that 50th - so it is a bit shocking that with your profession you got it that wrong  :))

To the OP - I love both those colours, great looking cars.
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Plus disbursements which I add to all my numbers!!