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      06-30-2021, 04:20 AM   #38
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Drives: 2021 X7 M50i, 2004 330i w/ZHP
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Originally Posted by calisebas105 View Post
Nice, How's the v8 doing? Gas mileage? Also do you put it on the lowest setting when taking pictures?
The V8 is doing great. Nice and smooth. But pop her into sport mode, and/or giver her a good jab on the accelerator, and she'll growl and pull like you lit the afterburner.

I was initially concerned with previous reliabliity of the V8, but that has improved in recent years. It's still early in the life cycle for me, but so far zero problems, and I'm loving it. I'm getting about 19 MPG overall, which is good with me.

Yeah, sometimes I forget, since you have to manually do it EVERY time, but I think the X7 looks good in pictures at the lowest setting, so I try to lower it for pictures. The #1 thing on my wish list from BMW would be for an option to lower the car automatically to a selected height every time, upon shutting off the ignition.

[SIZE="7"][COLOR="Red"]HINT, HINT, BMW!!![/COLOR][/SIZE]
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