Is diesel dead - BMW X5 M50D

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I need a larger family hack. I was originally looking at the m50i variant but the v8 4.4 got a lot of bad press. So I started looking at straight sixes instead.

They aren’t many suitable 6 cylinder 3 litre engines. So this has got to me a X5 M50D. It’s the 3 litre, quad turbo diesel.

The car itself is 2 years old and expensive. I do like it, but am concerned about buying a large expensive engine/car (this would work for a large petrol too).

However, the bigger question is whether diesels will become even more outdated and I’ll be stuck with an impressive but undrivable car, thoughts?

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kiethton said:

Why not look at the 45e - we've got one on order but they're the best of both worlds (provided you do mixed driving, not all motorway and have somewhere to charge it overnight)

They are10k over budget

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GreatGranny said:

There seems to be loads of X5 3.0d and 4.0d models on Atrader.

Are they wrong spec, price etc..?

Very few have the active cruise that I want. That said even a 30d and 40d raise the same diesel question as the 50d does.