Which bimmer to buy next

Nice....face lifted model too.

Just don't park up on that kerb too often.  That won't do the wheel alignment much good not to mention them 9.5 x 19 alloys...

Watch Clarksons review of the 535d.  It's good...for a diesel....

and it took me almost 1 year to buy this car.

duh just realised 335d sport or 535d sport

535d Sport is the one to have, I've seen a few around for about 16k but with over 70k on the clock!!!
I test drove the 335d and the power delivery is very impressive!
You won't be disappointed!


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Guys,

Sorry to invoke this old thread but I couldn't buy in
the first quarter due to my job uncertainty. Now things
seems be a bit better and promising then before.

I am quite keen to buy 535d as I find reviews quite
positive. I never owned a diesel before but as said in
various posts above that diesel is not recommended, may
I know a subtle reason why diesel should not be
considered. Given the combination of mpg and performance
of 535d I think it is quite reasonable. They say it is
world's best diesel car ever made, also I heard 530d at
BMW showroom and it wasn't that loud when we started the
engine keeping all windows down.

I don't find E60 cheaper either, my 15k budget won't get
me anything what I want. As said in first post I am
after automatic, 2006 onwards, 40kish on clock with sat
nav, xenons, possibly lane departure featured model.
Actually price for this car never dropped in past 6
month, they are still coming for appx. 20k, which is a
lot and well above my budget. But by selling my current
318i I can consider spending that much but I need ur say
before I go ahead with any deal next month.

Thanks for reading,
-Afsar






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Andrew Rolland wrote: Remember that is around 29 mpg from something that will crack 60 in under 6 seconds and is pegged back at 155mph and scare the brown stuff out of E46 M3 owners.

If you were scaring the brown stuff out of E46 m3 owners then you wouldn't be getting 29mpg. I bet that you have to take if fairly gently to get 29mpg out of your car. Either that or you spend a lot of time on the motorway at 70mph. You will certainly not be driving it hard to get that MPG.

Am I right?

 

Peter Fenwick wrote: The V8 has quite a bit more pwer but dspite what Andrew says it will get worse mpg and it will cost more come service time.

Must disagree with you there sir.

Since the 20th of  August my car has returned the following average mpg when filling it up, calculated by hand not going on the cars computer.

30.0, 31.3. 30.7, 34.4, 34.4, 30.7, 30.7, 29.1, 31.0, 28.8, 23.5, 29.1, 21.9, 22.4, (Towing a caravan for the last two) 29.4, 30.7, 26.4, 27.9, 24.3, 29.4 and 29.4.  All on Shell VPower.

(info recorded for my ongoing VPower v Unleaded experiment)

So that lot averages out at 28.8 mpg.  So yes I must apologise profusely to everyone when I said my car gets on average 30.0mpg.  Sorry knuckles duly wrapped!

It will quite clearly give me more than 30.0mpg on some runs but when you then drive thru stop start commuter traffic on the M8 it brings it down to the above figures.  Return run to Edinburgh for a Saturday nightshift and I got 33 mpg, now that I have driven on the M8 three times in commuter traffic it is now down to about 31 mpg IIRC from this morning.

Still 28.8 mpg is not much worse than my E39 (31mpg at best) and way better than my old Senator.  If you take out the two rouge ones when I was towing a caravan it averages out at 29.5 mpg. 

Remember that is around 29 mpg from something that will crack 60 in under 6 seconds and is pegged back at 155mph and scare the brown stuff out of E46 M3 owners.  

It's when the back end wiggles and the traction control checks your progress when you are accelerating hard at 40-50mpg, that is the scary!

As said by others the cheaper older V8 with higher running costs is offset by paying less for it in the first place.

Andrew

Peter Fenwick wrote: Sometimes you have to set a limit in terms of running costs.

Oh blow that, cross that bridge when you come to it.

Stone-IslandV8 wrote: Peter Fenwick wrote: The V8 has quite a bit more pwer but dspite what Andrew says it will get worse mpg and it will cost more come service time. But isnt that offset by the V8? Am I the only one on here who's wife works on the basis that if I don't get the engine/power I want/like then I'll be a nightmare so lets me get on with it??!!? But then again its my car...she can't drive.

Sometimes you have to set a limit in terms of running costs.

E39 530i doe's what it says on the tin! fast comfortable loads of room, all the bells and whistles for you to play with, problem i found with the vert and coupe's is the doors are so long,can't fully open it in car park to get the nipper in or out of the back.(unless you drop the top!)