56 plate 3.0d Le Mans Blue Sport Special Addition

[Scamp's Walker]

Hi
Have recently discovered these and debating a change from an e39 touring to one of these or and '08 plate 525d or 530d touring. Anyone have any realtime mpg figs that I should expect. I am erring towards the touring but have looked at a couple of these X5s recently and am tempted. Only things that put me off are a)apparently tyre usage is on the v high side plus extra urbam mpg appears to be 30 versus 45 from the 525d touring.

Thoughts and advice will be appreciated.

[roofer]

Mate has the newer X5 3.0d and struggles to get 26mpg out of it. Expect similiar.

[daemon]

roofer said:

Mate has the newer X5 3.0d and struggles to get 26mpg out of it. Expect similiar.

+1

You'd be lucky to get 25mpg out of an e53 3.0d.

[gizlaroc]

And 45mpg from a 525d touring?!

You're dreaming.


A manual facelift 3 litre may see 45mpg on a steady 60mph run in the middle of the night with no other traffic.

21-29mpg from the X5 and 26-38mpg from the 525d touring.