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nice your 530 looks identical to my old one, and like you I wanted an X5 but wife said too big, and I had to listen as she rarely drove the 530 - but I love my X3 hope you enjoy yours as much

Sport mode around some good roads bought the MPG down I can tell you. as much as I hated M6 roadworks I think the long enforced 50mph limits helped. But I easily went from NorthWest to Manchester, Sunderland, Northampton, Eynesham, Dorking and back to NW easily - I can only remember my holiday in Scotland where I filled up anywhere bit my local place - and I checked MPG against calculation for miles and fuel needed to fill up and it was accurate not expecting same from X3

I didn’t go out for pano roig, let’s see how it is my 530d X drive could achieve over 60mpg and I often got 700-800 mile range and a few times over 900 miles so far this has averaged exactly 40mpg over 300 miles or so but mostly commuting and small roads so I am ok with that i need to do a long drive to see but from my normal day to day commute my 530 didn’t seem so much better - only time will tell - but the engine is sublime, I thought my 530 was smooth but this set up with acoustic glass is amazingly good

I like new tech and like how BMW have modernised a lot, II just prefer the display I have, maybe it’s the circular shape of the dials ? And I use head up for Nav each to his own. It’d be boring if we all liked the same things eh

X3 M40d with comfort pack, tech pack, M sport plus pack with adaptive suspension and panoramic roof

I did that over a lot of journeys over 16-18000 miles and found calculated MPG was within 5% of computer in my 530 X drive, sometimes getting 62MPG and over 900 mile range

I used to have mine set to blue to match seat stitching with auto dim at night And never really noticed a problem

I didn’t like the look of the dash display in a X5 and the new screen with so much info is Unnecessary, I like tech but in cars it’s often not needed, it’s one reason I moved away from Audi as I hate all this touch screen stuff - it detracts from driving

thank you, I’m certainly enjoying it and can’t believe how good it is

thank you. First day and 100 mile run on motorways, A roads and lanes and it is wonderful, makes me realise just how much I missed adaptive suspension on my 530

Thank you I didn’t want the idrive 7 but mine was built end of June this year, one should always ask build date for an in stock car

Hand a car back in first two weeks for any reason ? Or any fault / missing items etc ?

Well its been fun over last 2 1/2 years or so but my 530 went back today and just waiting to collect my new X3 tomorrow. It's been a terrific forum, I see most X3 forum users are from USA so its going to be quite different. Thanks to everyone for their comments, advice and suggestions and I wish you all well for the future.

thank you

Can you recommend a GAP insurance, I used ALA for my 530 but need to do similar for an X3 next week, may have to transfer time remaining from existing policy